Film-maker Adam Curtis on why this moment feels so weird – podcast
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Version 0 of 1. The award-winning film-maker talks to Michael Safi about the big ideas that have run out of road Adam Curtis is a journalist who delves deep into the BBC archive to make films about the ideas and feelings that define our times. In his latest series of films, Shifty, Curtis charts how Margaret Thatcher and her government transformed Britain by transferring power to the world of finance and by promoting a radical individualism. In conversation with Michael Safi, Curtis discusses the way his films try to capture what an idea feels like, how the ideas of the 1980s have led us to feelings of powerlessness and melancholy, and how new ideas are the key to a different future. Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/todayinfocuspod |