Shot in back and white, the short film materializes in stark, melancholic images one of the key tracks from the album Fordlândia. "One of the two main threads running through it is this idea of failed utopia, as represented by the 'Fordlândia' title – the story of the rubber plantation Henry Ford established in the Amazon in 1920s, and his dreams of creating an idealized American town in the middle of the jungle complete with white picket fences, hamburgers and alcohol prohibition. The project – started because of the high price Ford had to pay for the rubber necessary for his cars' tyres – failed, of course, as the indigenous workers soon rioted against the alien conditions." - from the website of Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Magnús Helgason
Director
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Writer
Of Mice and Men73%
Ferrari63%
The Lost City of Z63%
Farming62%
Modern Times83%
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans78%
Jungle Cruise72%
The Tramp65%
Dogville77%
Duel in the Sun64%
A Million Ways to Die in the West60%
The Mosquito Coast63%
City Lights82%
Hands of Stone66%
Don't Worry Darling68%
The Cowboy and the Frenchman60%
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning61%
Over the Top64%
Bedtime Stories62%
Original Sin61%
