Jacques Tati: Welcome to the Working Week

Jacques Tati in the film Playtime, 1967

I lifted this image from a great essay by Martin Filler at the NYRB on the evolution and/or devolution of our working environments. Once you've seen a Tati movie you will get some images stuck in your head. One I remember is a couple kids in a vacant lot kicking at a can with delight as gleaming towers of progress are being erected around them.