Through several amusing live action and animated vignettes, Saul Bass illustrates a fundamental and essential particularity of human nature that keeps us alive and the world turning, evolving and reaching new designs and possibilities: the necessity of creation. And by creation, Bass means everything from art to mundane things, from words and numbers to unusual abstract works.... (Full plot summary below)
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Through several amusing live action and animated vignettes, Saul Bass illustrates a fundamental and essential particularity of human nature that keeps us alive and the world turning, evolving and reaching new designs and possibilities: the necessity of creation. And by creation, Bass means everything from art to mundane things, from words and numbers to unusual abstract works.
Leave your thoughts about Why Man Creates.
| User ReviewCarl Wobviously rated for the graphic design nerds out there. |
| User ReviewDave HI saw this during a lecture at Cornerstone University's Journalism Institute. Honestly, I'm having a hard time understanding the film's application to journalism. Still, I enjoyed it very much. George Lucas was the camera Operator though. |
| User ReviewClayton RIt favours its own creativity over its subject matter. But Why Man Creates is a documentary with a rare ability to charm through its perplexing humour and visual originality. It also demonstrates Saul Bass's lighter side to life, and (when you can work out what it's actually informing) acts as a great demonstration for how creativity touches every person, whether it is rejected or embraced by them. |
| User ReviewMithun GIncredibly surrealistic docu short from the legendary Saul Bass. A must watch. |
| User ReviewBill WI found this to be a very entertaining animated film. It is well worth watching. It has some very clever and thought provoking exchanges in it. |
| User ReviewKen SThis somewhat experimental documentary about creativity by Saul Bass (best known for creating some movie posters and opening sequences for Hitchcock films) is an interesting and sometimes funny look at creativity and why people do it. It isn't really an in depth documentary, but more of an experimental look at the subject. The animation that starts it off is wonderful...the rest is sort of hit or miss. |
| User ReviewErik JHard to classify this movie. It is a good short watch |
| User Reviewelise hinteresting film. very odd, and almost drug trip inspired in cinematography and direction. however, it raised a good question, with a good discussion. overall i was really confused, but it was kind of entertaining |
