All People Is Plastic

In the history of cinema the modern big city has often served as a screen onto which dystopian fantasies are projected: The idea of the urban space as a cruel, Moloch-like machine drove Fritz Lang´s sinister vision of the future, Metropolis (1927), in which the mass of slave-like workers is forced into the serfdom of assembly-line labor. Harald Hund´s 3-D animation film All People Is Plastic refers to both this image of the city as a machine of discipline and Jacques Tati´s criticism of the modern age, for whom corporate culture serves as a working world of enforced conformity....

All People Is Plastic

Retro-futurism in form and content...