Noam Chomsky and Joseph Stiglitz on our globalised world
 
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Globalisation, the development of the internet, and the growing influence of the mass media has left us all pondering the question: "How can we tell when someone’s trying to manipulate us when we live in a world that’s become so intricately entangled?” Together with Modern Times Review, we’ve carefully selected a number of films that examine the impact that the media and the economic and political interests of those in power have on our lives.

In order to spark an deep discussion about the control mechanisms used and abused in today's world, we have employed the help of renowned linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. In the now classic documentary from 1992 entitled Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, the film’s duo of directors introduces us to "the best of Noam Chomsky" and his fundamental ideas and thought-provoking opinions.

What’s your view of today's world? Brace yourselves for our latest curated selection, Our World under Control, and discover the impact that the media and the economic and political interests of those in power have on our lives.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Media, Philosophical

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a dynamic collage of biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick's award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.

Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz
Jacques Sarasin
Economy, Politics, Work

In this hard-hitting documentary about the perils and promises of globalization, Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz takes a tour of the world which starts in his hometown of Gary, Indiana. As we travel the globe, Stiglitz explains that globalization is not only a story of environmental disaster and pressure on wages and working standards. There are countries which have managed globalization well and have found ways to make it work. This illuminating documentary - featuring one of the great minds of the twentieth century - is ultimately a message of hope.

RIP in Pieces America
Dominic Gagnon
Media

Rip in Pieces America is an uncensored proclamation from an invisible USA. Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and meanwhile removed from video sites such as YouTube. Well-formulated conspiracy theorists, bad-tempered grass-roots activists and religious arms fanatics, who use the webcam as both a means to preach and to confess, have all been filtered by the censor, but stored by Gagnon, who neither comments nor embarks on any finger-pointing.

Pieces and Love All to Hell
Dominic Gagnon
Media

‘Report’– this inconspicuous button with a flag icon appears underneath every single YouTube video we watch marking the limits of our freedom on the internet. Once flagged by anonymous users, after being checked by the also anonymous YouTube team, a video quickly disappears forever. In exactly this process, Dominic Gagnon intervenes. He 'saves' the flagged videos before they are deleted and adds them to a dark and mythological collage of American survivalism. People who deeply mistrust the government, who warn their fellow citizens, and who arm themselves visibly talk candidly to camera.

The Tube
Peter Entell
Media, Science

A little girl throws a fit when the television is turned off. What's going on? Everyone seems either hypnotized, addicted, or turned into a vegetable by the tube. Her father, a TV journalist, decides to get to the bottom of it. Is there proof of what people have suspected for years? One clue leads to another – from his home in Europe to the studios of Japan and the laboratories of America. His goal: to penetrate into the very heart of the TV industry. What haven't we been told? It is a story worthy of the “X-Files” – except here it's all true.

The Dubai in Me
Christian Von Borries
Economy, Middle East, Philosophical, Work

Dubai has rapidly carved itself out a reputation as being a theoretical object. This is how Christian von Borries approaches it and what explains the title of his film. What is laid bare here is less the picturesque market town which has grown up over night, crammed with buildings on the scale of the pharaohs, but more the realisation of a liberal utopia. Dubai is a screen where sad dreams are played out, those inscribed by the imagination of capital, the dreams that haunt us: the Dubai-in- me. This is why von Borries combines shots of Dubai with local real estate advertising clips.

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