Creative documentary one-off, 85 min.

“A feature documentary about the history of the camera and our present-day media culture - a humorous and thought-provoking film about the impact it has on our lives.”

The camera is a fantastic machine.

FANTASTIC MACHINE is a thought-provoking examination of humanity’s infatuation with itself, and with framing the world through the camera’s lens.

Filmmakers Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck (Ten Meter Tower, Jobs For All!) once again turn their cameras directly on society, this time to explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown to change our human behavior.

In the process, the filmmakers also raise the question of societal consequences stemming from the image output of 45 billion* cameras on the planet (*total expected in 2022) and how humanity went from the image of a backyard to a multi-billion-euro content industry in just 200 years without a road map.

Directed by Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck

Edited by Mikkel Cee Karlsson, Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck

Sound designer & mixer Anne Gry Kristensen

VFX-artist & compositing Peter Toggeth Karlsson

Creative advisor Kalle Boman

Produced by Plattform Produktion

Co-Produced by Bullitt Film, SVT and Film i Väst

Marketing Producer Kathleen McInnis

Executive Producers Erik Hemmendorff & Ruben Östlund

With the support of Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, DR TV, ARTE G.E.I.E, Swedish Arts Council, Gothenburg Municipality and See-through Films

Status World premiere at Sundance 2023, International premiere at Berlinale 2023, Official selection CPH:DOX 2023


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AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE