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Objectified (2009)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:11

Rotten:4

Average Rating:6.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release:May 8, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind... Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves? --© Official Site [More]

Director: Gary Hustwit

Director: Gary Hustwit
Producer: Gary Hustwit
Composer: Kristian Dunn
Studio: IFC Films

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Oct 13, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 0
  • Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese
  • Subtitles - English
 
 
 
 

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A slickly entertaining and thorough enough curiosity about the form, function, context, inspiration, and evolution of industrial design.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
05/05/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

This is real hothouse stuff, and Hustwit does a nice job elucidating it.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
05/22/09
Andrew Pulver
Andrew Pulver
Guardian [UK]

moothly compelling with its sleek, mass-produced shapes and beautiful minds that fetishize ergonomics and the ideal of perfectability.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/08/09
Bill Weber
Bill Weber
Slant Magazine

That’s what’s great about his approach: he focuses on the most mundane of subjects and makes us think about them.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
05/22/09
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

It provides just enough information to invite further study without going into much detail. It’s an intriguing film about what goes on beneath the surface of the objects we take for granted, but one that never digs as deep as it should.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
05/07/09
Keith Phipps
Keith Phipps
AV Club

You'll never look at your next toothbrush (or your next any product) in quite the same way after watching this astute, elegant inquiry into the purpose and process of industrial 
design, Objectified.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/06/09
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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This is an offering for those that can spot the beauty in objects from beamers to toilet bowl plungers.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/08/09
Matthew Nestel
Matthew Nestel
Boxoffice Magazine

It gets you thinking.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
06/05/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Witty, engaging and exquisitely crafted.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/08/09
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety

Objectified is so straightforward, sensible and thought-provoking that it alleviates that design noise instead of adding to it.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
05/08/09
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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As sleek and handsome as any of the new and improved household items it exhibits.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/08/09
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Has sporadically intriguing moments and stylish editing, but its lack of insight, elaborations and synthesis makes it seem deficient in both form and function as a documentary.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
05/08/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

For all its intriguing observations, the documentary struggles to develop a strong argument about its subject, or to demonstrate the hidden cultural power of design in such a way as to make the subject compelling to those without a prior interest.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
05/06/09
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Time Out New York

A documentary that could have been more involving to people outside design careers if director Hustwit edited out some of the long, tedious monologues in favor of showing more products with exciting designs.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
04/09/09
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Compilation of filmed interviews with industrial designers who talk about the philosophy of design, rather than the objects they designed.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
05/07/09
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
 
 
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