Fordlandia Malaise (2019)
• February 13th, 2019 • 0h 41min
Documentary, History
Overview
Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. His aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car production in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade. Nowadays, Fordlandia is a space suspended between times, between the 20th and 21st centuries, between utopia and dystopia, between visibility and invisibility: architectural buildings of steel, glass, and masonry still remain in use while traces of indigenous life left no marks on the ground.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Gig Is Up
Released on: 2021-08-14
Documentary
A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers ...
Roger & Me
Released on: 1989-09-01
Documentary, History, Comedy
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the l...
The Flickering Flame
Released on: 1996-12-18
Documentary
Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, W...
Brutal
Released on: 1980-01-01
Documentary
The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.
In the same boat
Released on: 2016-08-08
Documentary
A documentary about the technological progress responsibility in employment destruction, analyzed by...
The Promised Land
Released on: 1975-02-21
Drama, History
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
Heredity
Released on: 2021-09-19
Documentary
Flora, 30, is a French geneticist. She analyzes what is transmitted or not between generations. She ...
The Boy Who Can't Forget
Released on: 2012-09-25
Documentary
Can you remember what you were doing on 15th March 2003? Or what the weather was like on 30th May 20...
Freedom of Choice: How the Government Controls What You Consume
Released on:
Documentary
Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect; every day we make choices that determ...
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Released on: 2003-11-21
Documentary
Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and edit...
Insistir
Released on: 2023-04-11
Documentary, History, Drama
A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.
Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire
Released on: 2019-05-01
Documentary, History
This documentary focuses mostly on the 1930’s to 1950’s – arguably the most important period in mode...
Unknown White Male
Released on: 2005-06-01
Documentary
The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follow...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Danny
Released on: 1987-01-01
Documentary
A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness ...