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I want to watch more documentaries, particularly about social issues and the relationship between technology and people.
Please send me recommendations if you have any!
Here are a few recent ones from me:
Please send me recommendations if you have any!
Here are a few recent ones from me:
The Prison In Twelve Landscapes:
I really liked the format, exploring the messy, unfair, and broken criminal justice system through a dozen fly-on-the-wall vignettes that connect if you make an effort. (On my mind ever since my year at Code for America.)
I really liked the format, exploring the messy, unfair, and broken criminal justice system through a dozen fly-on-the-wall vignettes that connect if you make an effort. (On my mind ever since my year at Code for America.)
RBG:
A balm on my soul, watching this after the joke of a confirmation of the joke of a nominee that is Kavanaugh. Want to see more portraits of extraordinary people who care about things worth caring about.
A balm on my soul, watching this after the joke of a confirmation of the joke of a nominee that is Kavanaugh. Want to see more portraits of extraordinary people who care about things worth caring about.
Graphic Means:
A lovely exploration of a dead, little known medium of phototypesetting, but really more of an exploration of what creativity can be, and how to foster it.
A lovely exploration of a dead, little known medium of phototypesetting, but really more of an exploration of what creativity can be, and how to foster it.
Three Identical Strangers:
This already-unbelievable story took a surprising turn in the middle, and become an even more gripping exploration of nature vs. nurture.
This already-unbelievable story took a surprising turn in the middle, and become an even more gripping exploration of nature vs. nurture.
The Clinton Affair:
@MonicaLewinsky is in this and she’s speaking to the camera in a way that’s so incredibly thoughtful, earnest and *good* I was completely blown away. It’s worth watching this just for her.
@MonicaLewinsky is in this and she’s speaking to the camera in a way that’s so incredibly thoughtful, earnest and *good* I was completely blown away. It’s worth watching this just for her.
We Live In Public:
This starts as Hackers × The Social Network, but then goes into a few fascinating social experiments and a wild portrait of an early-Internet person I haven’t heard of. Some of the questions on how the attention of others changes you feel very pertinent today.
This starts as Hackers × The Social Network, but then goes into a few fascinating social experiments and a wild portrait of an early-Internet person I haven’t heard of. Some of the questions on how the attention of others changes you feel very pertinent today.
808:
A history of the influential drum machine. Interesting to see tech in an area I don’t know much about. The movie also shows music as this huge living fabric where people all over the world riff off of each other; the biggest hits are often the most unlikely combinations.
A history of the influential drum machine. Interesting to see tech in an area I don’t know much about. The movie also shows music as this huge living fabric where people all over the world riff off of each other; the biggest hits are often the most unlikely combinations.
A great documentary I just rewatched was this 35-minute YouTube video. It talks about an old video game, but then it goes deeper, and deeper, and deeper still – only to reveal itself at the end to be about something much more meaningful. Very recommended.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There:
A portrait of a serial confabulator, and how it’s possible to find meaning and identity – or simply an opportunity to deceive – in mass tragedy. Interesting visually. Wish it went further, but maybe the point is that it’s not really possible to do so.
A portrait of a serial confabulator, and how it’s possible to find meaning and identity – or simply an opportunity to deceive – in mass tragedy. Interesting visually. Wish it went further, but maybe the point is that it’s not really possible to do so.
13th:
Very well done and very important look at systemic oppression and racism in America. Not easy to watch. Right next to Random Family, Detroit, The New Jim Crow, and Hoop Dreams in contributing to my education.
(thx to many people who recommended this)
Very well done and very important look at systemic oppression and racism in America. Not easy to watch. Right next to Random Family, Detroit, The New Jim Crow, and Hoop Dreams in contributing to my education.
(thx to many people who recommended this)
Get Me Roger Stone:
This was rather awful, the Who’s Who of the most cynical, despicable, opportunistic, soulless people in American politics, with at least one of them sporting a non-ironic Richard Nixon tattoo. Painful to watch, painful to see all the repeating patterns.
This was rather awful, the Who’s Who of the most cynical, despicable, opportunistic, soulless people in American politics, with at least one of them sporting a non-ironic Richard Nixon tattoo. Painful to watch, painful to see all the repeating patterns.
