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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Fast, cheap & out of control
  name:
    name part: Morris, Errol
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  name:
    name part: American Playhouse Theatrical Films
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Fourth Floor Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Experimental films.
  genre: Feature films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (83 minutes)
  abstract: The creator of such groundbreaking films as 'A Brief History of Time', 'The Thin Blue Line', 'Vernon, Florida', and 'Gates of Heaven', Errol Morris is one of the most original filmmakers working today. His latest, 'Fast, cheap & out of control', may be his most unusual work yet; Morris refers to it as 'the ultimate low-concept movie -- a film that utterly resists the possibility of a one-line summary.' The film interweaves the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals: Dave Hoover, a lion tamer who idolizes the late Clyde Beatty, and who shares his odd theories on the mental processes of wild animals; George Mendon�ca, a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to painstakingly shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; Ray Mendez, who is fascinated with hairless mole-rats, tiny buck-toothed mammals who behave like insects; and Rodney Brooks, an M.I.T. scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs without specific instructions from a human controller. As the film proceeds, thematic connections between the four protagonists begin to emerge: the lion tamer and the topiary gardener look back at ways of life which are fading from the scene; the mole-rat specialist and the robot scientist eye the future, envisioning creatures that may someday replace the human race. The film's style is as adventurous as its subject matter. Working with Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson ('Natural Born Killers', 'Casino'), Morris utilizes numerous film formats and resolutions--including black & white, color, 35mm, 16mm, Super-8 and video, as well as stock footage, old movies and cartoons -- to create a singularly impressionistic collage of images. Morris' trademark unblinking interviews were shot with his invention, the Interrotron, which allows his subjects to look directly into the camera lens and, at the same time, have eye contact (through an image projected on …
  target audience: adult
  note: American Playhouse Theatrical Films in association with Fourth Floor Productions, Inc. presents ; produced & directed by Errol Morris.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed January 05, 2017).
  note: Rodney Brooks, Dave Hoover, Ray Mendez, George Mendonca.
  note: In English.
  note: Won 1998 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Best Non-Fiction Film
  note: Won 1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Non-Fiction Film
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Eccentrics and eccentricities
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)51175982
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 170105
    record change date: 20260324204733.5
    record identifier: in00003946134
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng