This document analyzes formal experimentations and non-verbal performances in films by Jacques Tati and David Byrne. It compares Tati's films Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) to Byrne's Stop Making Sense (1984) concert film and American Utopia (2020) Broadway show. The document discusses these works' use of monochromatic spaces, sound play, depictions of space and spatiality, and themes of suburbia and alienation portrayed through formal elements rather than dialogue.

1. Stop Making Senses:
Thoughts on the Formal Experimentations and
Non-Talking Heads of Jacques Tati and David Byrne
Joshua Louis Moss

2. Stop Making Sense
(Demme, 1984)

3. Mon Oncle
(Tati, 1958)

4. Monochromatic Spaces and Sound Play
Playtime (Tati, 1967) American Utopia (Lee, 2020)

5. Space and Spatiality
American Utopia (Lee, 2020) Playtime (Tati, 1967)

6. Sense, Form, and Play Time
Playtime (Tati, 1967) American Utopia (Lee, 2020)

7. Suburbia and Artifice
Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958) Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)

8. Sound Play and Suburban Alienation
Playtime (Tati, 1967)
American Utopia (Lee, 2020)