A selection of Roy Andersson’s droll little capitalist nightmares in the shape of commercials (“the best in the world,” according to Ingmar Bergman) featuring color-drained people who have ceased to be the consumers and become the consumed. Middle-aged newlyweds pound one another’s skulls with appliances; new purchases bring disasters; and an infamous ad for Sweden’s Social Democratic Party rhetorically asks, “Why Should We Care About One Another?” as nurses offhandedly toss patients around rooms and commuters kick a man while he’s down. Shorts include the director’s early films about familial relations and partnerships, the 1993 AIDS information film Something Happened, and World of Glory (1991), named one of the top ten shorts of all time by the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. 

—Jason Sanders