All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
SAT 11 JUNE / 10:00 / SHOWROOM 3
Grab your thinking cap, settle down, and enjoy some time with of one of the UK’s most revelatory filmmakers. In this series of three films, Adam Curtis argues that we have been colonised by the machines we have built. From the dreams of internet utopians, to the "selfish gene" theory of human behaviour, to the Twitter and Facebook revolutions, the films show dramatically how in every case there is an underlying vision of human beings as nodes in networks acting and reacting to flows of information around the system. As usual, Curtis illustrates his ideas by telling an extraordinary range of stories, from novelist Ayn Rand’s tragic love affairs, to the dreams and the frightening reality of the hippie communes, to the brutal politics of the Belgian Congo. In an age disillusioned by politics, this machine ideology seemed to offer a new way of ordering the world. But the shift in ideologies has come at a very high price – the idea that progress and political struggle can change the world for the better.
Director - Adam Curtis
Country - UK
Year - 2011
Duration - 180 MINS
- Duration
- 180 mins
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