#adam curtis documentary

[wandering-alien]

Adam Curtis talks about how our age of individualism with ideas about needing completely free and independent identities means that nobody falls head over heels in love and gives themselves up to the emotion and the person they love but when Hozier sung 'No grave can hold my body down/I'll crawl home to her' that hit. That was beautiful.

And this is coming from the person who still doesn't really understand romantic relationships.

[wandering-alien]

This is objectively hilarious, but y'all should watch Adam Curtis' documentary The Power Of Nightmares because it's a really good narrative about terrorism and how actually Al-Qaeda and that whole spiel is actually very different to how it was portrayed in (largely western) media. Also just a very good series of films.

Yes this is ridiculously nerdy and basically unrelated to the original post but i have binged it three times this week.

op turned off reblogs but i’m gonna pass out laughing over this

[kenyatta]

Here we go. 🎢

[gifmovie]

[nando161mando]

shot from an Adam Curtis documentary, text reads: part three there is a policeman inside all our heads and he must be destroyed

[michaelsmosey]

[mckennasdigitaldiary]

HyperNormalisation by: Adam Curtis 

When watching this documentary by Adam Curtis, it made me reconsider film as a form of art. When it comes to documentaries in general, they act as an archive. I've never thought about that until now. The collection of video clips, interviews, and graphic scenes are all tools to time stamp a certain period in history, in this case the year 2016. The documentary focuses on a certain point of view that is expressed by using dramatic filming techniques like slow pans of the cityscape or using the simple cinematography of a person typing on a computer, an empty room, even blood stains. These all seem very random, but Adam Cutis uses them deliberately to evoke a wide range of emotion within his audiences. 

Curtis never uses a clip of video for too long and cuts to the next in a quick, yet sometimes shocking way. I would say that he does this to highlight the ever-changing world that we live in today as well as emphasize how the dark and gruesome get overlooked, normalized, hence his title. The medium of film has a wide range of ways to express his message, yet Curtis uses similar techniques consistently in the documentary with his narration, old footage, and dramatic music. The combination of all these elements contribute to this film’s impact not only for the time it is reflecting on-- 2016, but also for today--2025, there are similarities to the present day that are scarily accurate. This archival documentary seems to reveal our continued mistakes within the ever-changing, yet always relevant, cultural and political climates. 

I feel that this film was very strong with its message and overall impact, but I truly did find it a bit monotonous at times. HyperNormalisation made me feel like my eyes were opened a bit wider to the world that is before me, a little sad, anxious and honestly like we are reliving history a bit. It makes me wonder how art can be incorporated into archives and whether or not documentaries also act as a form of art. In a sense everything is art, but how can random objects, photos, videos, etc. go from being just that to being an archive that has meaning? What makes the archive cohesive and how does one go about that process?

[absurdlakefront]

Hypernormalisation: Everyone knows the system is broken, the leaders know we know, but no one acts because there’s no alternative. We feel powerless, so we accept the chaos as 'normal.' Sound familiar?"

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

TRAUMAZONE

Director: Adam Curtis Year: 2022 Distributor: BBC

"The second reason [to do the series] was the feeling, which I had before the war, that too many of us in the West had this simplistic, patronizing view of Russia. I was very offended that during the Trump era and immediately after Brexit, this anti-Russian sentiment was widely used by liberals – yes, nice, sensible, sympathetic liberals – to somehow hide the fact that the working class has turned its back on them and no longer loves them. In general, instead of blaming themselves, they began to blame the Russians and Putin. And this was stupid and wrong.

I wanted to show how difficult Russia is, and how difficult the era of the 1990s was for the Russians themselves, and that it was from this era that Putin emerged. All this, of course, does not justify it at all, but I really wanted to show all the complexity of living through the fall of not only communism, but also democracy, the most significant ideology of our time." - Adam Curtis "When the empire falls apart, don't stand too close" One of the most striking (and painful) documentaries of 2022 is the TraumaZone series about perestroika. We talked to its author Adam Curtis — Meduza

[rrrauschen]

Adam Curtis, {2022} TraumaZone 01 (1985-1989)

[harrison-abbott]

[lostfunzones]

The Century of the Self / (Full Adam Curtis Documentary).

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

HyperNormalization

documentary film by Adam Curtis (2016)

We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do. This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them. It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal. But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world."

[squirrelsighting]

HyperNormalisation - Adam Curtis.

[skullbitcrusher]

from the docuseries All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, part 1 'Love and Power'

song is Baby Love Child from Pizzicato Five

[donotdestroy]

The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)