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Zeitgeist: The Movie - Zeitgeist: Addendum
Peter Joseph
USA
2007-2008
118'- 123', English – Turkish subtitles, www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Already seen by dozens of millions, Zeitgeist movies are probably the most popular among documentaries circulating on the net. Using hypnotic rhythm, stylistic narration and thought-inspiring animation, they present a compelling argument. The first film focuses on how societies are governed by forces defined by the triangle of religion, money and fear. The Zeitgeist Addendum begins like an Economy 101 module, explaining the dynamics of the monetary system and comes to its conclusion with the Venus Project, Jaques Fresco’s utopia. (He visited Istanbul for the Futurists Summit this year.)
The Corporation
Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Canada
2003
145', English, www.thecorporation.com
Corporations were established as basic institutions to organize the ways in which business is done. Today they are global institutions acting as global powers. Corporation focuses on the philosophical and the working patterns of this institution from a humourous yet compelling perspective. The film exposes the unrestrained expansion and effects of the modern corporate institution and its socio-economical, political and environmental implications. Combining a wide range of interviews with high ranking corporate individuals, corporate spies, academics and activists with a range of excerpts from advertising campaigns, this well-thought out documentary provides the viewer with a giant portrait of ‘The Corporation’. Screened 5 years ago at !f 2004, the award-winning documentary has lost none of its relevance.
The Century of the Self
Adam Curtis
UK
2002
The 20th century witnessed the impact of Freud’s ideas profoundly changing the perception of the human mind and its workings. The four episode BBC documentary ‘The Century of the Self’ describes how Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays’ theories have been used by politicians and public relations agencies alike during the last hundred years in their ‘engineering of consent’, especially in countries like the United States and Britain, well versed in efforts to control the public by controlling their life motives. While The Century of the Self asks crucial questions concerning the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy and its implications, it also underlines the modern way we see ourselves.
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2nd episode
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4th episode
The Take
Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
Canada
2004
87’, English, www.thetake.org
“One of the things that we really believe and tried to embody in the film is the power of the specific example. It’s—you know, we wanted to take this discussion away from the abstract and from the ideology and into the—the ideas in motion. People actually implementing an alternative to a brutal set of economic circumstances.”
The Take is a documentary on solidarity, cooperation and hope. Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein tell the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative. The Take is certainly a must-see, not just because of its strong content, but also because it provides a crucial twist to this Wake Up section; namely that of ideas in motion, thoughts in action.
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The Take
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
Abdallah Omeish and Sufyan Omeish
USA
2006
90’, English, www.occupation101.com
The award-winning documentary Occupation 101 aims to take a closer look at the decades old Palestine-Israel war from a broader yet historical perspective. Directors Omeish brothers, with no pior filming experience whatsoever, quit their jobs in New York and followed their instincts that eventually took them into the war-zone. The movie covers interviews with thinkers, including Chomsky, as well as congressmen, clerics, journalists and historians form Israel, and most strikingly, dialogues with Palestinians within the war zone.
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Occupation 101
War Made Easy
Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp
USA
2007
73’, English, www.warmadeeasythemovie.org
Adopted from the same titled book of Norman Solomon, the documentary focuses on how the US strategy of global politics based on wars employs the media as an organic tool for propaganda. Narrated by Sean Penn, nearly the entire film consists of footage excerpts from the media coverage of American wars throughout history. Perhaps the documentary’s most striking point is that the pattern it suggests can be seen in any government-media relationship in any given part of the world.
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War Made Easy
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