Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1979
Original Language:English
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Modern Times (1979)
19 minJan 1st, 1979
In these five modern narratives of desire in contemporary consumer culture Almy constructs an ironic social critique Each segment focuses on a single concept that is visualized with a simple formal device With an economy of visual and verbal means Almy merges voiceovers and images to achieve abbreviated narratives of alienated modern lives In the first segment photographic slide projections of individuals and household objects are each labeled nice In another a woman describes a man with an associative series of adjectives progressing from the positive to the pejorative from perfect absolutely perfect to boring absolutely boring Throughout Almy presents a picture of personal and social stasis the commodification of everyday life
DirectorMax Almy
