Machine Dreams

1988, Movie, NR, 87 mins

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
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