Inspired by surrealist and structuralist filmmakers, plastic poem is assembled like a wordless concrete poem incorporating sound collage and chiaroscuro images of plastic sprues, the manufacturing byproduct of tabletop gaming figurines. Play is central to its conception, however, the film itself actively rejects narrative structure in favor of treating original images as “found” objects themselves, arranged and repeated as a series of poetic devices in stanzas. This abstraction allows for aesthetic investigation and political critique to occupy the same arena, and the two tend to confuse each other: structured play vs. the superstructure.