[adam-curtis] The Strange World of… Adam Curtis … The Quietus explores ten key films that define Adam Curtis’ career as a documentarian. (via) ‘Curtis showed he was a master of locating the character, the story arc to talk about important historical developments. A central theme of his output is that power resides in finance and technology which are both opaque and boring. We need to make them interesting through identifiable heroes and villains and hubristic quests. This focus on interesting characters is ironic because another theme of his work is the way life has become all about the individual, not the collective or culture. The aim is to gesture to wider shifts in society, his “powerful forces,” but people are the only thing that can be grasped.’
Ten Key Works From Adam Curtis
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