One of a series of aerial city studies by Olivo Barbieri, begins over the deserts of Arizona and Nevada and soon reaches the fantasy glitter world of Las Vegas. A portrait of materialism, Barbieri’s film confounds - the miniature-sized pedestrians, cars and architecture appear as artificial as toys; monumental feats of engineering (the Hoover Dam or the Fountains at Bellagio) seem strangely out-of-context within the natural landscape; and the development of the Las Vegas Strip causes one to ask, what motivates such excess?