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Objectified

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Objectified is the second part of a three-film “design trilogy” by Gary Hustwit, details on the third film will be released soon. Objectified had its world premiere at the SxSW Film Festival in March 2009, and is currently screening at film festivals, cinemas, and special events worldwide.

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  1. The documentary is really designed nice and narrative is cool to understand the actual things around us and why we really go to shop and buy them. Thanks for this

  2. I really enjoyed it!

  3. For a documentry about design it funny that they have the butter tray upside down.

  4. It’s very inpirational video, however, I personally felt that it would be even better if the stories had been some sorts of categorizing and displayed by order to fully explore the entire interviews and explanation. otherwise, it was just series of individual thoughts that might cause some people being bored.

  5. Very boring documentary, basically all asleep

  6. Super insightful documentary. Quick question, can you help me with the name & credentials of the lady who speaks at around 1:05:45? She speaks right before Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Designers, London? Thanks.

  7. This doesn’t seam to be working. Is anyone else having trouble loading this video?

  8. The video is gone!