Capital

    5/5/2009
    17

    Storyline

    In Das Kapital – Version 0.7, Marcello Mercado merges the logic of industrial production with digital computation, transforming Marx’s critique into an audiovisual algorithm. Command lines, programming syntax, and economic diagrams generate microbial and geometric architectures—vegetable loops and centrifugal forms that pulsate like living data. The film exposes the illusion of control within the technological age, where the viewer becomes both operator and captive of code. Juxtaposing synthetic imagery with the traces of real violence, Mercado reveals a capitalism that regenerates itself through chaos, automation, and abstraction. Visually rich and conceptually precise, Das Kapital – Version 0.7 expands across short and feature versions, tracing the transition from industrial matter to digital biology—a cinema where theory breathes, multiplies, and consumes itself.

    Revenue:
    $250,000
    Budget:
    $250,000

      Reviews

      • scrk97

        Marcello Mercados Das Kapital Version 0.7 is a groundbreaking experiment at the intersection of cinema, theory, and computation. Combining the visual language of digital modeling with Marxist critique, the film transforms equations and economic diagrams into living structuresorganic, radiant, and terrifying.

        Mercados editing rhythm is surgical yet feverish; information loops, CAD grids, and chromatic explosions converge into a sensory storm where abstraction and flesh collide. The film interrogates the seductive power of digital aesthetics while exposing the violence hidden within algorithmic control.

        Both a media-archaeological reflection and a philosophical experiment, Das Kapital Version 0.7 expands into multiple versionsshort an...

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