Tag: Adam Curtis

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Can’t Get You Out of My Head
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Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Inspired by the division between political liberals and populists, filmmaker Adam Curtis demonstrates how all factions in the 21st century have lost the ability to establish a practical vision for the future. Can’t Get You Ou...
HyperNormalisation
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HyperNormalisation

HyperNormalisation, by Adam Curtis, argues that in an age of perplexing world events and uncertainty, politicians and the public alike have retreated into an over-simplified version of reality. Over the past 40 years, those i...
Bitter Lake
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Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis argues that Western governments and media have reduced the story of militant Islam to a simplistic narrative of good versus evil. The film examines why these explanations, presented to Western audie...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, by Adam Curtis, explores how humans have become colonised by the machines they have constructed over the years. Rather than liberating humankind, it argues that computers have dis...
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap is a BBC series written and directed by Adam Curtis that examines the idea of freedom, particularly as it pertains to a modern conception that views humans as self-serving individuals obsessed with personal freedom....
The Power of Nightmares
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The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares compares the rise of two seemingly contrasting ideologies: the neoconservative movement in the United States and radical Islamism. Filmmaker Adam Curtis draws a comparative analysis of these ideologies...
The Century of the Self
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The Century of the Self

The Century of Self, by Adam Curtis, discusses the emergence and rise of psychoanalysis as a pivotal means of persuasion for corporations and governments. It covers the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, as...
The Way of All Flesh
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The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh, by Adam Curtis, tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and how her cells led to significant breakthroughs in medical research. Before Lacks’s death, cells were extracted...