Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
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Director: Errol Morris
1997 / 80min / 35mm
A singular entry in Morris’s already singularly unusual career, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control focuses on four men with uncommon occupations: a topiary gardener, a wild animal tamer, an MIT scientist specializing in robotics, and an expert in naked mole-rats designing an enclosure for the animals for the Philadelphia Zoo. Combining talking head interviews (conducted, for the first time, with Morris’s “Interrotron” invention, which allowed him to maintain eye contact with subjects while they appear to look in the camera), found footage, and ravishing original images courtesy cinematographer Robert Richardson, Morris’s apparently scattershot film gradually reveals itself to be a very focused study in the human desire for control.
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