A political allegory in an animated film about a city that is swallowed up by weeds growing with malevolent vigor because its inhabitants have not taken enough initiative.
In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi...
