The premise of “The Age of Stupid” is the following: Sometime in 2055 a custodian (played by Pete Postlethwaite) of a vast human culture library looks back on what went wrong: Why did we humans let Global Warming happen? Through 6 separate stories we get an international view on the effects of Global Warming and [...]
Colin Beavan decided to live one year without having any negative impact on the environment. What does that mean? It means only buying local, not using anything disposable (including diapers, plastic containers and toilet paper!), not taking the elevator, only using public transportation, not using electricity and not producing any waste. All in a small [...]
Also known as “Brainman”. Daniel Tammet is a young man with “high-functioning autistic savant syndrome”. In other words, he’s smart as hell. We follow him to the States where scientists get baffled at his extraordinary mental abilities. For example, he has a stop-over in Iceland where he learns the language in a week, he does [...]
The recent films we have been reviewing; “Collapse”, “The World According to Monstanto” and “Death of Suburbia” all deal with the end of the infinite growth paradigm. And while films such as “Food Inc.” shows some light at the end of the tunnel for food production, the Dutch film “Food = Waste” flips on a [...]
Also known as: “Le monde selon Monsanto” and “Controlling our food”. Monsanto, in case anybody was in doubt, is pretty far from winning the love of the people. Former producers of Agent Orange, they now produce pesticides and Genetically Modified seeds and growth hormones. They have a horrible record and seem to leave misery and [...]
Just like “The End of Suburbia”, “Collapse” deals with global oil depletion. What happens when we run out of the black gold? (hint: it won’t be pretty!) Director Chris Smith does so many things right with Collapse. It’s expertly structured and manages to swing the direction back and forth between “this guy is out of [...]
“Peak oil”, make a note of that term. It refers to the point when world oil production reaches its maximum. After that it’s downhill; downhill for putting gas on your car, downhill for fueling factories, downhill for suburbia, downhill for human society. “The End of Suburbia” manages to paint a convincing pictures of a not-so-far-future [...]
A lovely short-doc about a guy with a passion: soda pop. John Nese runs a shop with over 500 kinds of pop and he’s exactly the guy you’d want to serve you when you can’t decide which of the 15 Cherry Cola brands is right for you. Lovely! Watch the film here: Youtube: 5 out [...]
Fantastic short doc aimed at showing the breadth and depth of Getty’s Hulton Archive. The challenge for this director has been “how can you show photographs that don’t exist?” Watch the short below and witness the amazing solution to this challenge. Youtube: 5 stars (137 reviews) / 7 minutes Directed by: Laurie Hill
7 long years. That’s how much time Andrew Wiles spent fighting a mathematical problem to which no one knew if there existed a solution. The film is a beautiful, little gem about human endurance represented by a very modest man. Who knew mathematics could be this exciting? The doc is not available on DVD anywhere, [...]
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