A symphonic journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial site where borderline men work in isolation without any interference. These men trigger, unconsciously, the long chain of creation, transport, commercialization and destruction of the objects feeding our bulimic lifestyle.
Cinematography
Industrial spaces shot like alien cathedrals.
Score
Classical music makes factories feel like cosmic horror.
Direction
Ferrero turns documentary into abstract meditation.
Director
Giorgio Ferrero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ferrero spent years accessing these industrial sites; most workers had never been filmed. The 'borderline' men he depicts are often immigrants in legal gray zones, deliberately unseen by design.
The title comes from a line in Don DeLillo's 'White Noise' about shopping as spiritual experience—Ferrero inverts this into something closer to funeral rites.
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