A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Direction
Hustwit makes door hinges feel like heartbreak.
Production
Every frame could hang in MoMA. Irony intended.
Director
Gary Hustwit
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film basically invented the 'design doc' genre that Netflix now milks dry with shows about fonts and toy collecting.
Gary Hustwit shot this for peanuts between his Helvetica and Urbanized trilogy — no narrator, no score, just designers nervously touching things they made.
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