MACHINE DREAMS, a 1988 West German "intellectual documentary" released to US theaters and home video in 1995, has as its conceit a sleeping narrator who sees in his "dream" (the film itself) a historical overview and philosophical dissection of "man's relationship to machine." By turns
brooding and eerie, at first compelling and insightful, the film's presentation of machines as a manifestation of human longing and desire (but also of fear and anxiety) eventually grinds into a reductionist and relentlessly oppressive mire.
An 87-minute experimental film by Peter Krieg, MACHINE DREAMS embarks on a historical and intellectual tour of ideas about machines, a wide-r...
Released:
1988
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins