Still Life With Fax

In Terry Gilliam’s dystopian and hilarious Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays an office drone whose soul-crushing job can’t keep him from soaring into the heavens and repeatedly saving a beautiful maiden in his dreams. In Mike Judge’s Office Space, Ron Livingston plays an office drone whose soul-crushing job drives him to rebellious and sometimes felonious deeds of self-actualization. Filmmakers, who don’t have to work in cubicles, have a lot of crazy ideas about what it must be like to work in cubicles. So it might be more enlightening to look at the creative output of the cube dwellers themselves. Art/Work: Creativity From the Cube is an annual exhibition of art by the employees and CEOs of a number of area businesses, including BNIM, Sprint, KCP&L, UMB and Garmin. Through Sunday at Union Station (30 West Pershing Road, 816-460-2020), see the Visual and Literary Arts exhibition and vote for your favorite works of art. For more information, see artskc.org. (See “Programs for Business.”)— Chris Packham

July 31-Aug. 9, 2010