Adam Curtis

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Mr. Tea said:
Let me guess: the very thing we thought would set us free and make us happy ended up controlling our lives and making us miserable?
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The episode titles and descriptions seem very familiar, although the focus on Britain might give this one a bit more detail. The longer descriptions when you click through to each episode have these lists of the things you'll see in each one, like some 'Grim Britannia' themed free association.

"Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs Thatcher. Encounter group. Ghosts of the Empire. Jimmy Savile. The Cheese and Onion computer. Video dating. Ian Curtis. Monetarism. Dead pilot. Stephen Hawking and Black Holes. National Front. Fat-shaming ventriloquist. Dub clash sound system. Party elephant. W****r on the line. Racist attacks. Bucks Fizz."​
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It's like reading the tags for one of the threads on here.
 
Clinamenic

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The episode titles and descriptions seem very familiar, although the focus on Britain might give this one a bit more detail. The longer descriptions when you click through to each episode have these lists of the things you'll see in each one, like some 'Grim Britannia' themed free association.

"Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs Thatcher. Encounter group. Ghosts of the Empire. Jimmy Savile. The Cheese and Onion computer. Video dating. Ian Curtis. Monetarism. Dead pilot. Stephen Hawking and Black Holes. National Front. Fat-shaming ventriloquist. Dub clash sound system. Party elephant. W****r on the line. Racist attacks. Bucks Fizz."​
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It's like reading the tags for one of the threads on here.
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I would kill to watch an Adam Curtis episode about the Jamaican Voodoo Gang from Predator 2
 
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Seen a few people saying this one's another 'vibes' thing like TraumaZone, i.e. there's no narration or effort to construct much of a narrative. It's just the footage, some text and music and a bit of a slog. This is his explanation, for what it's worth.

In Shifty, you’ve removed the authoritative voice that characterized your previous work, which in turn removes the sense of history as a definitive narrative.​
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There is a funny moment in recent history when the fragments of experience don’t quite make sense: they’re still memory and haven’t yet become history. Most of these things will fall away in the next ten to 15 years. It’s like a twilight zone of memory before the formal structure of history replaces it. I wanted to make a film set in that funny transitional moment, when everything is morphing and in flux. No one knows what it means at the time, but we later come to realise it was actually much more important than we thought.​
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That's from a recent interview with Frieze. He's written an article for The Guardian too.

www.frieze.com

Shifty: Adam Curtis on Politics, Power and the Mind

The filmmaker on his new BBC series, the enigma of AI, and the need to imagine a genuinely new future
www.frieze.com www.frieze.com

www.theguardian.com

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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