Drux Flux

{{short description|2008 animated short}}

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Drux Flux is a 2008 animated short by Theodore Ushev, inspired by Herbert Marcuse’s treatise One-Dimensional Man.{{cite web|url=http://www.topten.ca/shortfilms/druxflux/default.aspx|title=Canada's Top Ten|publisher=Toronto International Film Festival|accessdate=29 December 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506195124/http://topten.ca/shortfilms/druxflux/default.aspx|archivedate=6 May 2009}}

A film without words, Drux Flux uses figurative and abstract imagery to portray people as crushed by industry and progress. The film features a musical score by Alexander Mossolov, and was produced in Montreal by the National Film Board of Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=56149|title=Drux Flux|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=29 December 2009}}

Ushev began work on the film in 2007. The NFB had asked him to create a 3-D version of Tower Bawher, but finding the work tedious, the filmmaker decided to begin work on Drux Flux instead. The two films are similar in style, both utilizing Soviet constructivist imagery and Russian classical music score.{{cite book|last=Robinson|first=Chris|authorlink=Chris Robinson (writer)|title=Animators Unearthed: A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oozKz8Hu4xIC&pg=PA130 |date=4 June 2010|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0826429568|page=130}}

Drux Flux received the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival,{{cite news|last=Fraser|first=Malcom|title=Cartoon caravan|newspaper=Montreal Mirror|date=4 December 2008 | volume=24 | number = 25 }} and was nominated for best animated short at the 29th Genie Awards.