The Way Things Go
by David Weiss (II);Peter Fischli
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DVD details
Actor: -Director: David Weiss (II);Peter Fischli
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
DVD Reviews of The Way Things Go
DVD Review: Metaphore??
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a metaphore about how you can't control the way things go (beautiful, unrrepitable, chain reaction) in life..... I think.DVD Review: Astounding art, and powerful influence
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Way Things Go" is with things going. No music, no text or spoken words, but an incredible chain of things happening. Things going up, down, falling over, flowing, spilling, starting chemical reactions, burning, exploding, extinguishing flames, pulling, pushing, popping, steaming, rolling, and more.
For half an hour, you watch a ballet of physical and chemical reactions that is unpolished, but utterly facinating. There are rhythms and tempos, changes in cadence and style of action, but it is constant and mystifying.
I loved it.
On another level, it is a superb video for anyone trying to inspire kids to appreciated physics. Children will sit silently and watch this video again and again, and kids who never expressed an interest in science will ask the key question "how did they do that?" And then they are hooked. And it shows that good science can become good art and vis versa.
A timeless, facinating, and inspiring act of art.
E. M. Van Court
DVD Review: Love this!
Summary: 4 Stars
I used to work in a museum where this would play on a loop, and museum patrons would sit and watch it for hours, and they'd often ask what it was, and where they could buy it. I bought it as a gift for my sister. It's intriguing to the very end. It's pretty short, but it's just so different, and fun! If you enjoy physics, or science, or engineering, definitely get this. DVD Review: Rube Goldberg redux
Summary: 4 Stars
In the last century, the cartoonist Rube Goldberg entertained and fascinated readers with his humorous cartoons of truly complicated devices or procedures that resulted in some simple task being completed. This film follows his lead and shows for some 30 minutes, using simple machines (levers, inclined planes) and fire, a series of continuous actions which accomplish nothing in particular except to entertain the viewer. No humans are shown in the film, though their work in setting up the event, apparently in a large warehouse, is evident in how smoothly, more or less, the whole crazy enterprise takes place. There is a certain underlying humor to the whole thing and also the anticipation of how the film makers will manage to keep the movement going. Bravo.DVD Review: The Way Things Go In Multiple Takes
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, a very intriguing film. But not stating that it was filmed in multiple takes is misleading to say the least. (Scenes fade out, and new scenes fade in, most often when the camera zooms in on fire, smoke, steam, or bubbles.)
What this achieved was the ability to link separate attempts together should part of the chain reaction fail.
Ask anyone who's built elaborate domino structures and you'll find that just a slight misplacement can bring the domino effect to a halt.
I'd bet all my 401k money (ah ha ha ha ha ha) that this happened to the film makers.
Description of The Way Things Go
THE WAY THINGS GO is a film by "the merry pranksters of contemporary art" (New York Times) renowned Swiss artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss, that chronicles the lifespan of their most famous kinetic sculpture as it amazingly self-destructs.Inside a warehouse, Fischli and Weiss build an enormous and precarious structure made out of common household items such as tea kettles, tires, old shoes, balloons, ladders and wooden ramps. Then, with fire, water, gravity and chemistry, they create a spectacular 100 foot long chain reaction performance of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Alfred Hitchcock.
"Comparable to no other film ever made" (Riverfront Times), THE WAY THINGS GO has appeared in hundreds of galleries and museums, and has been applauded by critics worldwide.
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