Das Kapital

Marcello Mercado’s Das Kapital – Version 0.7 is a groundbreaking experiment at the intersection of cinema, theory, and computation. Combining the visual language of digital modeling with Marxist critique, the film transforms equations and economic diagrams into living structures—organic, radiant, and terrifying. Mercado’s editing rhythm is surgical yet feverish; information loops, CAD grids, and chromatic explosions converge into a sensory storm where abstraction and flesh collide. The film interrogates the seductive power of digital aesthetics while exposing the violence hidden within algorithmic control. Both a media-archaeological reflection and a philosophical experiment, Das Kapital – Version 0.7 expands into multiple versions—short and feature-length iterations that form part of an ongoing cinematic organism. Together, they trace the mutation of capital from industrial machinery to data-driven biology. In Mercado’s universe, the economy breathes, decays, and replicates like a living virus.