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Among the things that strike me watching Alex Garland's #Devs is the extraordinarily effective use of music cues. The final ep. starts with a track that samples Steve Reich's 'Come Out' over a cgi [?] landscape. It's a perfect example of the show's aural/visual shocks... 1/7
Another is in ep 2 where Low's 'Congregation' scores an otherwise silent montage of Lily's horrific reactions to learning of her boyfriend's fate. Simply superb in context and another inspired choice... 2/7
The link between Garland's work and contemporary art works is another point of fascination. In #ExMachina there's a really interesting nod to a work of art in this scene... 3/7
Which appears to be a reference to a work by the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg's 'Stranger Visions' from 2012. 4/7
A Google for art references turned up an interesting interview with Garland about set decoration and production design which discusses specific art references in Ex Machina 5/7 https://www.setdecorators.org/?name=Alex-GarlandEX-MACHINA&art=directors_chair_Alex_Garland
In Devs the golden columns around the lab building seem like a reference to land art, and de Maria's 'Lightening Field' in particular 6/7
I haven't quite worked out if the glowing forest is set design or an actual art work, but it sure looks like one. There's a piece on it in Architectural Digest... 7/7 https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/devs-fx-series-set-design
