People's Limbo in RMB City (2009)
• May 22nd, 2009 • 0h 20min
Animation, Fantasy
Overview
Cao Fei explores a virtual metropolis within the online platform Second Life. The work blends real and fictional elements of Chinese identity and urbanism to comment on capitalism and development in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Marxist iconography intersects with modern corporate structures, creating a dystopian yet whimsical reflection on 21st-century economic realities.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Democracy Is ...
Released on: 2009-01-31
Animation, Documentary
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it...
i.Mirror by China Tracy
Released on: 2007-06-10
Music, Documentary, Fantasy
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wist...
Head In The Clouds
Released on: 2021-07-30
Drama, Fantasy
Laiila’s journey that looking for an answer to the questions that plagued her mind. In the middle of...
Emily and the Apple Tree Forest
Released on: 1978-12-25
Animation, Family
The first part of the Emilia animation series. Emilia lives in an apple tree forest. There, together...
Revolution or Bust
Released on: 2024-11-02
Fantasy, Animation, Music, Comedy
A surreal music video where a pop-up world of greed, rebellion, and revolution unfolds as cherubs, a...
It's Everybody's Business
Released on: 1954-01-01
Documentary, Animation
Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of l...
VINTERFINT
Released on: 2024-05-01
Animation
A free-falling take on expendable Ikea furniture, space consumption, and furniture names.
Sparkling Red Star
Released on: 2007-10-01
Animation
An animated remake of the 1974 children's movie "Shan shan de hong xing"
The Journey to Melonia
Released on: 1989-12-15
Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy
When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the...
More
Released on: 1998-09-01
Animation, Science Fiction
A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time h...
Apple Gatherers
Released on: 2025-10-02
Animation
Apple Gatherers follows two workers in an apple cider factory, the Peeler and the Shoveller. The fil...
The Tragedy of Man
Released on: 2011-11-27
Animation, Drama, History
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creatio...
The Millionaire
Released on: 1963-01-01
Animation
A dog inherits a fortune and becomes an influential capitalist snob in the human world.
Varmints
Released on: 2008-09-08
Animation, Science Fiction
Adapted and directed by Marc Craste, Varmints is a 24-minute film based on the award-winning book of...
Soviet Toys
Released on: 1924-03-11
Animation, Comedy
The first animated movie made in the Soviet Union, it portrays a bloated caricature of a Capitalist ...
Contract
Released on: 1985-01-01
Animation, Science Fiction
Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with th...
The Glass Harmonica
Released on: 1968-01-01
Animation
A craftsman builds a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are ...
The Noise of Time
Released on: 2024-06-27
Documentary, Fantasy
In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its jou...
Money Nirvana
Released on: 2021-05-01
Fantasy
Taking place in medias res, a desperate man has volunteered to lock himself in an isolated room for ...