Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams


Autofac (E08)

(episode)
  • USA Autofac
USA / UK, 2018, 52 min

Directed by:

Peter Horton

Based on:

Philip K. Dick (short story)

Screenplay:

Travis Beacham

Cinematography:

John Lindley

Composer:

Ólafur Arnalds
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Plots(1)

Despite society and the world as we know it having collapsed, a massive, automatic product-manufacturing factory continues to operate according to the principles of consumerism - humans consume products to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all. Temple will play, Emily, one of the rebels and Monae appears as Alexis, an Autofac representative. (Channel 4)

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