This past Saturday, I participated in London’s Santacon. Amazing is simply an understatement…pure hedonism. This documentary (more of a mockumentary) chronicles one of the original Santacon’s in Portland, Oregon (USA) during the 1996 christmas season.
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In ‘The Yes Men’, two activists use an official-looking website to assume the identity of WTO negotiators. In the process, they get invited to conferences around the world and uses some sometimes not-so-subtle satire with many times oblivious audiences to critique the economic world order advanced by the WTO.
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Hyperland is a BBC documentary from 1990. Spurred on by the emergence of hypertext (which was used on television sets to gain more information about shows), the producers and Douglas Adams envision a world wide web of information. Uncanny true predictions in some cases but entirely witty and full of humour.
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All he remembers is how to play music and that he loves his wife
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Review:
‘In this film, Alan Zweig seeks not to talk to people who collect vinyl records to discuss music, but rather to discuss what drives someone to collect records in the first place. In addition to celebrities like Canadian director/actor Don McKellar and American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar, Zweig speaks to a variety of record collectors, including a car wash employee who claims to own over one million records and also claims to have memorized the track listing of every K-Tel collection he owns, an overweight government employee who refuses to organize his collection because he doesn’t want people to come over, and a man who threw out his large record collection rather than sell or give it away because he didn’t want anyone else to own it’
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EPIC 2014 is a mockumentary about a future distopia when Google has turned evil, merged with Amazon, human-edited newspapers are a distant memory, and privacy is a meaningless word rather than a right. Directed
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated looks into the ratings system of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). For the director, the ratings system acts as essentially a form of censorship and priveleges studio over independent films.
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Steal This Film is about the file-sharing controversy surrounding the shutting down of the world’s largest bit torrent site, The Pirate Bay, in Sweden. To the surprise of Swedish prosecutors and American media companies, there was a huge public outcry of support in favour of The Pirate Bay.
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Born Rich, directed by a heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune, looks at the trials and tribulations of being born into the wealthiest of families. Jamie Johnson candidly interviews the children of Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg, and so on.
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The Merchants of Cool looks at the marketing strategies used by advertisers and the media to sell to teenagers.
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Rize, a documentary by photographer David LaChapelle, chronicles the rise of an intriguing urban dance movement in the street of Los Angeles.
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Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. With a light touch and lots of humour, it provides different perspectives from academics, lawyers, musicians, artists, and even from media conglomerates.
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