I'm not really a documentary person but this one is like a visual collage. It's made up from actual historic footage and reshoots with an incredible score.
It's the history of teenagers in the US, England, and Germany but it's also about the way young people are shaped by war and industrialization.
It's so compelling it goes by super fast, can't recommend enough.
Jan 15, 2025
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An aging raver goes to an inner-city East London High School to tell the kids that things used to different and maybe a little cooler. The kids aren't exactly sure if they should belive him. One of my new favorite music documentaries.
For fans for Adam Curtis, UK Jungle, and ethnography.
Jan 21, 2024
This is maybe my favorite documentary
It’s set in a small classroom in rural France with one teacher and a dozen or so kids of different ages.
I love this doc because it has no agenda - we simply observe the relationship between these kids and the teacher who is heading towards retirement.
It’s beautiful, it’s tender, it’s honest. It reminds me that kids will just cough with their mouths wide open
I love it
It tends to live on Kanopy jsyk xoxo ttyl
Nov 7, 2024
Extraordinary. Curtis was a BBC documentarian with a decided socialist streak who pieced together seven hour-long films about the disintegration of the Soviet Union (and subsequent rise to power of Vladimir Putin) in 2022 from random BBC archival footage, so that it could all be seen through the eyes of Russian people at every level of society.
Dystopian, creepy, banal, fascinating. A car crash in slow motion.
You can find it all on the YouTubes, with an incredibly varied soundtrack too.
And if you dig this, you can also track down his other earlier work, including “Hypernormalization,“ a similarly constructed documentary which argues that governments, financiers, and tech titans have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex "real world" and instead established a simplified "fake world" for the benefit of corporations. Anti-capitalist in excelsis deo. But well worth searching out. 👀
Feb 12, 2024
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Jan 14, 2025
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getting juuuuust a lil bit silly but not drunk and then walking home yum yum yum
no next day ruminating, no hangover, just having a chill time with some friends and going home 👌
Feb 3, 2025
solange is so criminally underrated it actually makes me insane and this song is perfect
Mar 19, 2025