What the bleep do we know

Directed by William Arntz:
What the Bleep Do We Know!? is a controversial 2004 film that combines documentary interviews and a fictional narrative to posit a connection between science and spirituality. Topics discussed in the film include neurology, quantum physics, psychology, epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, magical thinking and spirituality. The film features interviews with individuals presented as experts in science and spirituality, though the accuracy of many of the claims made have been disputed. These are interspersed with the fictional story of a deaf photographer as she struggles with her situation. Computer-animated graphics are featured heavily in the film.

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Darwin's Nightmare

Directed by Hubert Sauper:
A 2004 French-Belgian-Austrian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards.


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Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers

Directed by Erik Gandini:
A 2003 Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled.



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Voces contra la Globalizacion

Dirección: Carlos Estévez
Para elaborar esta serie documental, su director, Carlos Estévez, ha hablado con cincuenta y cuatro personalidades de todo el mundo que han dado su opinión y valoración sobre diferentes temas de actualidad. A modo de caleidoscopio, VOCES CONTRAL LA GLOBALIZACIÓN afronta diferentes temas, cada mes, desde múltiples puntos de vista, mezclando, durante los 55 minutos de cada capítulo, documentos y voces para explicar la actualidad más compleja reflejando las inquietudes y opiniones más críticas de los participantes.

A lo largo de los capítulos, se abordan cuestiones como la Política económica neoliberal, el funcionamiento de los grandes organismos internacionales, la pérdida de poder político en beneficio de las grandes corporaciones económicas mundiales, la debilidad de la llamada Sociedad del Bienestar en Europa, la explotación laboral y la inmigración. Pero también se examinan las privatizaciones, el papel de las industrias farmacéuticas y las grandes pandemias, el nuevo rol latinoamericano o los movimientos indigenistas. Todas estas voces que han participado en esta serie documental han coincidido en que no están en contra de la globalización, pero sí de cómo se está llevando a cabo.

Primero: Los amos del mundo
Segundo: La estrategia de Simbad
Tercero: El mundo de hoy
Cuarto: Un mundo desigual
Quinto: Camino de la extinción
Sexto: La larga noche de los 500 años
Séptimo: El siglo de la gente

Ilha das Flores - Isle of flowers

Ilha das Flores is a short film (13 minutes) that's a sort of social documentary with biting criticism of civilization's hierarchical system (meritocracy out of control with no empathy) and capitalism sprinkled with irony. Though ostensibly about the journey of a tomato, it's beautiful and devastatingly horrific and truthful. It may be the best documentary ever made. The film ends with an ironic reference to a poem by the Brazilian bourgeois poet Cecília Benevides Meireles, who is considered one of the most important poets of the second phase of the Brazilian Modernism:

"Freedom" is a word that fires the dreams of human beings. No-one can explain what it means, and no-one understands it.

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