Global Village or Global Pillage (2000)

Director: Brendan Smith, Tim Costello
Producer: Jeremy Brecher
Genre: Documentary / Short
Country: United States
Language: English

Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up.

Whether we like it or not, the global economy now affects us as consumers, as workers, as citizens, and as members of the human family. For those with wealth and power, the global economy has meant big benefits. But what does it mean for the rest of us? Are we destined to be its victims? Or can we shape its future – and our own? “Global Village or Global Pillage?” weaves together video of local and transnational activities, interviews, music, and original video comics to show that, through grassroots organizing combined with mutual support around the world, ordinary people can empower themselves to deal with the global economy.

~ Asymmetrical Chain ~

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

Propaganda (2012)

Director: Slavko Martinov
Producer: Slavko Martinov, Mike Kelland
Genre: Documentary
Country: New Zealand
Language: Korean / English /
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Prepare for indoctrination or the best piece of propaganda in a generation.

Described as “1984 meets The Blair Witch Project”, “A mouthful of scary porridge”, and “Even better than Triumph of The Will” the documentary is an anti-Western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world from a North Korean perspective.

Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, the film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. In chapters with titles like “Rewriting History,” “Advertising” and “The Cult of Celebrity,” we are treated to a lineup of the most embarrassing occidental excesses and globalization, the “psychological warfare” at the hands of multinationals, shopping-obsessed consumers and the failure of democracy.

~ Dark Triad ~

You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can’t fool ALL of the people ALL of the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

10 Point Plan: How does Money work? / 10 Punkte Plan: Wie funktioniert Geld? (2005)

Director: Maximilian von Bock und Polach
Producer: Maximilian von Bock und Polach
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: Germany
Language: German /
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10-point plan for efficient exploitation of a planet with semi-intelligent life forms.

Thesis-animation film by Max Bock about how the money and banking system operates. Money rules the world, but who rules the money? How to enslave mankind? This humorous cartoon in entertaining and vivid way explains that aliens have invented the money on the earth and exploits its inhabitants.

~ Point of View ~

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

The American Dream (2011)

Director: Tad Lumpkin, Harold Uhl
Producer: Tad Lumpkin
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: United States
Language: English /
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Too big to fail.

The American Dream is a animated film that shows the scams by the most basic elements of government system. How money is created? How banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? What the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects the every single day? The film takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system.

~ Moral Hazard ~

Decency is indecency’s conspiracy of silence.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

The Corporation (2003)

Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Producer: Bart Simpson, Joel Bakan
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
Language: English /
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The pathological pursuit of profit and power.

The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” What the study illustrates is that in the its behavior, this type of “person” typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. The film was nominated for over 26 international awards.

~ Price of Civilization ~

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~ Lord Acton ~