Philippe Grammaticopoulos film Le Regulateur (2004): A black-and-white, geometric depiction of a machine-world and a pair of puppet-parents that enter a department-store that manufactures children and then choose their child from among those on sale. The pressure to make the right choice and their bafflement in view of their wealth of alternatives, along with this constant fluctuation between subject-object finally result in a fateful decision that will affect this child-descendent forever. The latticework of lines in the work creates a machinated world, a world laden with absurdity and humor (for example, the fetuses are placed in egg-like incubators on leg-like stands and above them is a dimpled egg-carton ceiling). The new family sets out into the world — smiling in dread — they are almost ‘perfect’, almost according to plan.
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