Hypernormalisation: Adam Curtis plots a path from Syria to Trump, via Jane Fonda
The cult doc-maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Just make sure y..
The cult doc-maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Just make sure you put enough time aside to watch it
I struggle to think a more perfect union of medium and message than HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis’s new film for the BBC iPlayer. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is.
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