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Drux Flux

Animated Shorts (collection) • 4m 50s

Directed by Theodore Ushev • Animation • 2008 • 5 minutes

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the filmmaker deconstructs industrial scenes and their terrifying geometry to show the inhumanity of progress. A film without words.

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animation, communication and media studies, critical theory, critical thinking and ethics, drux flux, experimental film, film and video studies, national film board of canada, ovid, philosophy, s_0062, s_0103, s_0268, s_0534, science and technology, short, technology, title_d

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