Animated Feature Films
BABELDOM
In ancient times they talked of a city in which you could meet yourself at birth and on your deathbed. If a city ever existed in which the past and the future were united with the present, it would exist now, and forever...
The city is already so vast and growing at such a speed that soon light itself will not escape its gravitational pull. How then can two lovers communicate, one from inside the city the other outside? This is an elegy to urban life, a portrait of a city of the future, constructed from moving images collected all around the world from science, technology, industry and architecture.
This cult cine-essay by Paul Bush is all about a fictional mega-city called Babeldom. Where this city is supposed to be is a moot point. It is everywhere and nowhere. At first it is glimpsed througha misty fog: it is the city of Babel imagined by the elder Bruegel in his Tower Of Babel. Then Bush gives us glimpses of a place made up of actual cities and then computer graphic displays take us through how a city develops its distinctive lineaments and growth patterns. Of all the future-cities on this list, Babeldom is probably the weirdest.
(Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian)