The Way Things Go
Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through the complex of imaginative devices. Fire, water, the laws of gravity, and chemistry determine the life-cycle of the objects. The process reveals a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, and improbability and precision, in an extended science project that will mesmerize the mind.
- Year: 1987
- Country: Switzerland
- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: garbage, experiment, rube goldberg, drawing and painting, visual arts
- Director: David Weiss, Peter Fischli
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