Fantastic Machine (also known as And the King Said: What a Fantastic MachineMUBIFantastic Machine Review: Dull, Condescending Documentary - Paste MagazineSundance Review: Fantastic Machine Offers a Sprawling History of the Moving Image with a Too-Concise Lens - The Film Stage) is a 2023 Swedish-Danish documentary feature directed, produced and edited by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck.'Fantastic Machine': Sundance Review|Reviews|Screen Daily“Our Material Spans 150 Years of Camera Technology”: DPs Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aretryck on Fantastic Machine - Filmmaker MagazineGive Me the Backstory: Get to Know Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, the Filmmakers Behind “And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine” - Sundance Institute
Synopsis A video essay examination of humanity's obsession with cameras and imagery to the point of changing behaviors in 200 years alongside the social consequences laying ahead via archival footage (including interviews with media mogul Ted Turner and propagandist filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl).Fantastic Machine review – whirlwind history shows how cameras dazzle and deceive us|Film|The GuardianHeretic Acquires Sundance Title 'Fantastic Machine,' Debuts Trailer - VarietyAxel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck • Directors of And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine - CineuropaReview: And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine - CineuropaSundance 2023: Fantastic Machine, Milithusando, The Eternal Memory|Roger EbertFantastic Machine review – there's way too much going on here - Little White Lies
Release and reception The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival under the World Cinema Documentary Competition category on January 23, 2023.“Fantastic Machine” Turns the Camera on Itself in Eye-Opening Documentary - sundance.org
Accolades It would eventually won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision.The Complete List of 2023 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners - Sundance Institute
The film also won two awards (a special mention Youth Jury Crystal Bear and the AG KINO GILDE – CINEMA VISION 14plus) at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival.Strand Releasing Acquires North American Rights to ‘Fantastic Machine,’ Sundance Documentary Produced by Ruben Östlund (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety
See also Fake news Social effects of television Social media
References
External links Official website Rotten Tomatoes Fantastic Machine on IMDb