Machine Dreams

1988, Movie, NR, 87 mins

Machine Dreams: Review

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... read more leave a comment