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This is the first film to consider the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch. Founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels, Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice. The name was given to them by a friend to whom they had described what they were doing as “underground architecture,” taking the name literally she responded, “oh underground architecture is what ants do. The group was a self-described "art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of cultural introspection." Incorporating breathtaking archival video, new footage shot over ten years and animation based on zany period sketches, this film is about the joy of creation in a time when there were no limits.

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Wybrane nagrody i festiwale/Selected festivals and awards: 2010 – MFF Amsterdam/IDFA, 2010 – Festiwal Filmów Dokumentalnych Hot Springs/ Hot Springs FF.