Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Cinematography
Stunning compositions in Mumbai's toxic waterways and NY strip clubs.
Direction
Glawogger's gaze refuses pity — observation as political act.
Editing
City-hopping structure builds devastating comparative momentum.
Director
Michael Glawogger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Glawogger's 'globalization trilogy' — this preceded Workingman's Death and explored capitalist ruin before it was documentary-trendy.
Glawogger died in 2014 while filming in Liberia; Megacities remains his most formally restrained work, which somehow makes it hit harder.
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