Capital (2009): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2009, Capital is a notable film directed by Marcello Mercado, running about 17 minutes.

What it’s about. In Das Kapital – Version 0.7, Marcello Mercado merges the logic of industrial production with digital computation, transforming Marx’s critique into an audiovisual algorithm. Command lines, programming syntax, and economic diagrams generate microbial and geometric architectures—vegetable loops and centrifugal forms that pulsate like living data. The film exposes the illusion of control within the technological age, where the viewer becomes both operator and captive of code. Juxtaposing synthetic imagery with the traces of real violence, Mercado reveals a capitalism that regenerates itself through chaos, automation, and abstraction. Visually rich and conceptually precise, Das Kapital – Version 0.7 expands across short and feature versions, tracing the transition from industrial matter to digital biology—a cinema where theory breathes, multiplies, and consumes itself.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Capital page.