Movies and Material Culture

- The Secret Life of Machines - The Vacuum Cleaner


- Jour de fete (1949), directed by Jacques Tati


- Ten Canoes (2006), Directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr


- Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003), directed by Sylvain Chomet



- Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), directed by Buster Keaton


- Acciaio (1933), directed by Walter Ruttmann

More concepts

Taken from the movie The Corporation some concepts and ideas emerge from the background of the material culture embedded in the industrial (or post-industrial) society.

More Movies

Movies are the today narrative form for telling stories: they can be also a good workbench for an anthropological inquiry around a "domestic tool"...


Delicatessen (1990), directed by Marc Caro.


The General (1927), directed by Buster Keaton


The Corporation (2003), directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott


Robots (2005), directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha.


Apollo 13 (1995), directed by Ron Howard.

Some Movies, around the Material Culture

Modern Times, directed by Charlie Chaplin (1936)


Ten Canoes, directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr (2006)


Sleeper, directed by Woody Allen (1973)