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PressPausePlay: Art and Creativity in the Digital Age

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
This is [...]

January 15, 2012 Digital Revolution, Featured Slider 0 Comments

On The Brink Of A Networked Society

In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked [...]

November 5, 2011 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

Butterflies: A Documentary About YouTube

Butterflies is a feature documentary film following the lives of six young people that are prominent ‘weblebrities’ on the video site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media and traditional media merge?

September 14, 2011 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity

Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the “austerity” agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many [...]

August 15, 2011 Economics 2 Comments

Blind Spot

Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroads, which offer two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the [...]

March 22, 2011 Oil Industry 0 Comments

Atom Smasher: The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, hopefully [...]

February 5, 2011 Engineering 0 Comments

Us Now: Social Media and Mass Collaboration

In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?
Us Now is a social media documentary about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organization. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this [...]

February 5, 2011 Digital Revolution 1 Comment

Fuel: The World Is Addicted To Oil

Eleven years in the making, Fuel is the in-depth personal journey of filmmaker and eco-evangelist Josh Ticknell, who takes us on a hip, fast-paced road trip into America’s dependence on foreign oil. Combining a history lesson of the US auto and petroleum industries and interviews with a wide range of policy makers, educators, and activists [...]

February 5, 2011 Oil Industry 0 Comments

The End of Poverty

Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries. Renowned actor and activist, Martin Sheen, [...]

February 5, 2011 Economics, Featured Slider 1 Comment

The American Dream: How The Financial System Really Works

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of [...]

January 8, 2011 Economics 1 Comment

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