SHIFTY - a new film from Adam Curtis
We're deliriously excited that Curtis has a new documentary series due out this June
We're mildly obsessed with documentaries.
And of all the different types and makers of documentaries - our personal favourite favourite is anything made by British film maker, Adam Curtis.
Apart from his unusual style of film making, incredible research and utterly unique way of constructing a philosophical argument - we're also intrigued by the odd cloud of mystery associated with Curtis.
Some say that he is somehow linked to the 90s British super group Massive Attack (we saw Massive Attack at the 3Arts in Diep River way back when and still have a vivid recollection of the outrageousness of that experience).
Oddly Curtis has also been weirdly linked (probably through the Massive Attack association) with the street artist Banksy.
All the same - we're deliriously excited that Curtis has a new documentary series due out this June called SHIFTY.
This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.
SHIFTY is being produced in association with A24 UK, which adds even more allure to an already heady brew of ridiculousness here.
Oh...and the backing track for the trailer? (you're obviously wondering) is Wow by Young Fathers. Isn't it rad?
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