Neither banal nor evil
CONTROL: A search for understanding from a survivor of Aum Shinrikyo’s 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway.
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At home in another Europe
CONTROL: In increasingly authoritarian Hungary, two women face several hardships in their adoption of a young Roma child.
For whom the bell tolls
CONTROL: A look into the advertising approach of politics through weaponized communication by one of the world’s most notorious public relations firms.
Re-thinking history
CONTROL: An animated coming of age story about escape from authoritarian brainwash.
The dark art of politics
CONTROL: Intersecting power, truth, and myth through Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo.
The agonising campaign for truth
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China’s suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong.
Filmatic rebellion
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings new life to the 1960s revolutionary film and reminds us of the need to fight the prevailing forms of representation.
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.
The dirtiest work of all?
CONTROL: The determination of a community that comes together in the name of justice.
Big little secrets
CONTROL: In his memoir, Edward Snowden reveals how he helped build the mass surveillance system and what his motivations were to bring it down
Intelligent care for a world in disorder
PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.