Most people have never given doorstops a second thought--or even a first thought, for that matter. Doorstops are ubiquitous, yet no one notices them. This video demonstrates that there is more to the mundane than meets the eye, and that if you take a long hard look at the mundane, funny things happen. WARNING: Once you see this film, you will never look at doorstops in quite the same way again.

"[Roma] has managed to turn mundane door props into an obsessively weird shtick. In the past two years, he has collected footage of doorstop factories in Cleveland and in New Britain, Connecticut; of linguists dissecting the etymology of the word; of philosophers musing about a world without doors; and of collectors recounting tales of adventure and swindle."
Boston Magazine

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