picture of deoxyephedrine blowing may be a dime a dozen , but there ’s something different about the 1959 Academy Award - winning documentary film , Glas . The entire 10 - minute of arc short circuit is set to an occasionally eerie mixture of jazz , bop , and the metallic punctuation mark of industry at oeuvre .
You get to see maestro of their trade sculpting crystal like putty in unmediated contrast to the cold , systematic automation of bottle making machines in the Netherlands . And even if you ’ve never blown glass a day in your life , it ’s near impossible not to feel some sense of solidarity in this definitive battle between man and machine . Head on overto Aeon ’s new film siteto watch the hypnotize masterpiece in its integrality . [ Aeon ]
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