Film · Documentary
The Way Things Go (1987)
★ 6.6 · 27 votes30 minDocumentary1987
Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through the complex of imaginative devices. Fire, water, the laws of gravity, and chemistry determine the life-cycle of the objects. The process reveals a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, and improbability and precision, in an extended science project that will mesmerize the mind.
- Director
- Peter Fischli, David Weiss
- Writers
- Peter Fischli, David Weiss
- Country
- Switzerland, United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 1, 1987
