I'm not really a documentary person but this one is like a visual collage. It's made up from actual historic footage and reshoots with an incredible score.
It's the history of teenagers in the US, England, and Germany but it's also about the way young people are shaped by war and industrialization.
It's so compelling it goes by super fast, can't recommend enough.
Jan 15, 2025
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An aging raver goes to an inner-city East London High School to tell the kids that things used to different and maybe a little cooler. The kids aren't exactly sure if they should belive him. One of my new favorite music documentaries.
For fans for Adam Curtis, UK Jungle, and ethnography.
Jan 21, 2024
This is maybe my favorite documentary
It’s set in a small classroom in rural France with one teacher and a dozen or so kids of different ages.
I love this doc because it has no agenda - we simply observe the relationship between these kids and the teacher who is heading towards retirement.
It’s beautiful, it’s tender, it’s honest. It reminds me that kids will just cough with their mouths wide open
I love it
It tends to live on Kanopy jsyk xoxo ttyl
Nov 7, 2024
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. 👀
Feb 12, 2024
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Jan 14, 2025
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neal.fun
- a bunch of bizarre games/interactives with a dystopian and anti-caplitalist bent
window-swap
- shows you the view from random windows from around the world
radio/garden
- you can listen to live radio stations from all across the world
ytch.xyz
- show you random youtube channels and let's you click through like you're watching an old television
marginalia-search
- a search engine that isn't algorithmic, shows you niche search results that would typically be pushed to the bottom of other engines
thecreativeindependent
- articles by creatives, very simplified retro design that feels similar to this site
The Magazine Rack at Archive.org
- tons and tons of scanned and archived magazines spanning over 50 years
- recommend checking out High Times very fun and oh so 70's
Jan 14, 2025
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getting juuuuust a lil bit silly but not drunk and then walking home yum yum yum
no next day ruminating, no hangover, just having a chill time with some friends and going home 👌
Feb 3, 2025