CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
AI: The fallout from MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately.
We are drawing a line through three films from Sundance this year: politics, economics, and the Occupy Movement.
The web has had roughly a couple of decades to realize its potential as the channel for radical, subversive thinking or action. This film illustrates the web’s potential as a forum for the much bemoaned voices that seldom gain admittance to the public domain. But the prime feat of RIP in Pieces is the compilation skills of the sampling director-artist.
How can cinema reflect and explain the complexities of the 2008 economic crisis, asks Emma Baus. Three films presented at Cannes this year may answer the question in totally different ways. A fiction blockbuster like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; a talking head documentary like Inside Job, and a mock trial featuring real witnesses, lawyers and judge: Cleveland versus Wall Street.
This is the film about the rich and greedy in a united states of profit. Michael Moore himself fills nearly every screen as the people’s inquisitor.