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D.M. BENNETT: THE TRUTH SEEKER

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:18:41 +0000

Based on Roderick Bradford’s 2006 biography D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker, the film chronicles the life of the controversial nineteenth-century American publisher who some called “the devil’s own advocate.” Inspired by Thomas Paine, D.M. Bennett founded the “blasphemous” New York City freethought periodical The Truth Seeker and challenged the puritanical Comstock Law, named after U.S. [...]

Google Me – Finding the other me’s in Google

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:39:21 +0000

Everyday people google their own names to see what shows up, wenn they tipe in their own name. Jim Killeen googled himself as well and decided to visit all the other Jim Killeens that showed up when he was looking for his name in the search engine. He even makes DNA tests with them to [...]

Russian Godfathers: Putin and the Oligarchs

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:04:04 +0000

This BBC documentary gives a deep insight into Russian Politics and how power got transferred from the oligarchs to Vladimir Putins since the 1990s. Boris Abramowitsch Beresowski used to be one of the richest people in Russia – an Oligarch – and was called “Kingmaker” because he was known of bringing his friends into the [...]

Generation Exile: What it means to leave your home country behind

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:12:55 +0000

Through the eyes of four women Rodrigo Dorfman shows us in this documentary film, what it means to live in exile and leaving his own home country behind. When Rodrigo Dorfman was 6 years old he hat do go into exile as well, after his father, a Chilean writer, got into troubles with the regime [...]

CIA Agents Reveal “Secrets of the CIA”

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:52:33 +0000

In this CIA Documentary 5 former CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in the name “national security” and promoting foreign policy agendas. The CIA is confronted with overthrowing governments, [...]

The Zeroes: The Decade Wall Street Went Insane

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:49:53 +0000

At the turn of the millennium, Randall Lane, former head of Forbes’ Washington bureau, knew what this decade would be about. He started Trader Monthly – a slick glossy magazine that was to become the GQ of Wall Street. It portrayed a glamorous world of yachts and private jets, fine wines and lavish mansions. Meanwhile, trading floors were functioning [...]

Roberta Allen: Layers & Lines

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:35:39 +0000

In this dream-like video essay, the viewer travels from New York City’s ghostly Ansonia Hotel to the vital, boundless expanses of South America, Northern Africa and Belize. Roberta Allen, a prominent New York author and visual artist, travels back to her early years growing up the daughter of a mafia-connected gambler and a repressed over-anxious [...]

Generation OS13: The new culture of resistance

admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:23:12 +0000

Filmed prior to the rise of the occupy movement Generation OS13 sought to ask musicians, artists, authors and journalist what had happened to the western dream. They were no longer portraying an idealistic vision of society but that of a fragmented and apathetic society ruled by mass media, pop and phony money. Framing the media [...]

Flying with Jet-Wings / Delta-Wings – Action-Marketing pays off

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:39:08 +0000

It seems the legendary Ikarus comes alive wenn we watch this two documentations of peoply flying in jet-wings from one land to another (Great Britain to France) or even from one continent to another (Europe to Africa). From a marketing perspective these events were very interesting as well for Red Bull and Webtel.mobi, due to [...]

7/7/2005 London Bombings: Conspiracies & Investigations

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:57:16 +0000

The first part of this independent documentary “Seeds of Deconstruction” examines many of the outstanding questions and conspiracy theories about the 7/7 2005 London Bombings. The second part Crime and Prejudice explores the 7/7 cold case via new evidence from the recent inquests and discusses the war on terror in the context of numerous miscarriages of [...]