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Life In A Day

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in “Life in a Day”, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth.
Since then, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors have whittled down over 80,000 [...]

November 24, 2011 Culture 0 Comments

The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience

The Collective Evolution 2: The Human Experience is a documentary focused on showing each of the dimensions to the experience we call life. The documentary does this by addressing exactly who we all are, and why we are here. It further delves into each of the key pieces that make up the human puzzle, namely [...]

October 30, 2011 Culture 0 Comments

California Dreaming

California is a strong brand, a land of dreams, movie stars, surfers and has a wonderful climate all year. But the state is practically bankrupt and the city of Los Angeles has no more cash. Public services are being scaled back and unemployment has been steadily increasing. But even in these dire financial times, feelings [...]

July 4, 2011 Culture 0 Comments

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The latest Adam Curtis documentary is a series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realize it the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the [...]

June 1, 2011 Culture 0 Comments

Radiant City

Gary Burns, Canada’s king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the suburbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The Late Suburban Age.
Urban sprawl is eating the planet. [...]

April 12, 2011 Culture 2 Comments

Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Infomercials

In this episode of Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, he attempts to become a presenter on Florida’s Home Shopping Network TV channel and meets the people who invent, sell and make a fortune from products such as the Win Gym.
Louis gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses of things they wouldn’t normally come into contact [...]

March 28, 2011 Advertising 0 Comments

Manet – The Man Who Invented Modern Art

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l’herbe, he can probably be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is fascinating on many other levels.
As a piece of compelling biography, Manet’s [...]

March 14, 2011 Art 0 Comments

Orwell Rolls in his Grave

The film examines the current and past relationships between the media, the US government and corporations, analyzing the possible consequences of the concentration of media ownership. Making references to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the film argues that reality has met and in some ways exceeded Orwell’s expectations about a society dominated by thought control, [...]

March 9, 2011 Media 0 Comments

Vice Guide To Travel: Libyan Lockdown

Libya is the latest nation to experience the violent civil unrest that has plagued North Africa since December. But in August 2010 things were much different. In fact, the country was making steps to rectify its long-sullied international image. One of these steps was devising a youth conference to be held in Tripoli. We had [...]

February 26, 2011 Travel 0 Comments

Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century

Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century explores the rise of mechanistic philosophy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarchical systems. Topics covered include behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation. Scott Noble, the filmmaker behind the extraordinary and informative documentary Psywar, has made another revelatory and important [...]

February 26, 2011 Media 0 Comments