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Adam Curtis Documentaries

On a big ol’ documentary kick and have been steadily working through Adam Curtis’s filmography. More than being informative and engaging, they’re almost like multimedia collage pieces. I read on his Wikipedia that he cites Robert Rauschenberg as an influence and I definitely see and feel that. Beautiful stuff. Great soundtracks. He goes in so many different historical, geopolitical, cultural directions and somehow it doesn’t feel insane or boring or overwhelming. It‘s almost relieving to have someone articulate so clearly the depth of the mess we have made. Most of his work can be found for free on YouTube/Internet Archive. Proceed w caution, may contribute to feelings of anger and frustration.

@heavensimulator

Mar 16, 2025

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BITTER LAKE by ADAM CURTIS

Hands down one of the best intro's of any film. Adam Curtis makes history cool using incredible editing, amazing soundtracks, and deep dives into obscure history that changed the world.

@jay_islate

Nov 14, 2023

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‘Traumazone’ - a documentary about the fall of the soviet union by adam curtis

Extraordinary. Curtis was a BBC documentarian with a decided socialist streak who pieced together seven hour-long films about the disintegration of the Soviet Union (and subsequent rise to power of Vladimir Putin) in 2022 from random BBC archival footage, so that it could all be seen through the eyes of Russian people at every level of society. Dystopian, creepy, banal, fascinating. A car crash in slow motion. You can find it all on the YouTubes, with an incredibly varied soundtrack too. And if you dig this, you can also track down his other earlier work, including “Hypernormalization,“ a similarly constructed documentary which argues that governments, financiers, and tech titans have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex "real world" and instead established a simplified "fake world" for the benefit of corporations. Anti-capitalist in excelsis deo. But well worth searching out. 👀

@coreydubrowa

Feb 12, 2024

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ecclesiastes

The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep. (5:12) incredibly depressed guy in the old testament is actually based

@jack-corbett

Jan 22, 2024

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baking bread for your grandma

she brags about it to her church group , i'm the best grandson , it was a loaf of rye (old people love rye)

@jack-corbett

Mar 1, 2024

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watching card-counting tutorials on youtube

These guys are pure uncle-energy

@jack-corbett

Feb 9, 2024