Legendary French director Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with PLAY TIME. For this monumental achievement, Tati again thrust the endearingly clumsy, resolutely old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a bafflingly modernist Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PLAY TIME is a lasting testament to a modern age tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
Presented in collaboration with daOMA (design alliance OMAha) and Omaha Creative Institute, with a post-show discussion featuring New York-based architects David Leven and Stella Betts, whose Chelsea Penthouse Project was inspired by the film.