The Song of Styrene

The Song of Styrene

195813 min6.4 / 10

A visually inventive industrial promotional film that transforms a petroleum refinery and plastic manufacturing into an aesthetically playful, rhythmic meditation on modern production.

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.

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