Apologies for not having posted for a few months- to cut a long story short, I’ve left my day job and have a number of things up my sleeve right now, but mostly just concentrating on a short film I’m making and a few events I’m organised. In lieu of anything worthwhile to post, I thought I’d just recommend the latest offering from Adam Curtis- “The Strange Death of Political England”, part of a mammoth 40 hour film he’s in the process of making which will reflect the last 40 years of Britain through his usual MO of a huge archive of BBC footage edited together with the touch of a maestro. Despite not featuring his usual insightful voiceover, this first clip (running at 30 minutes) had me and my flatmate captivated last night…
If you haven’t discovered Adam Curtis yet (he’s a consistent feature of the BBC schedules now, having produced some excellent documentaries including Century of the Self, the Power of Nightmares and The Trap) I can’t recommend him enough. He’s a living example of what the BBC really is best at- the sort of documentaries that people will still be watching in 50 years time, reminiscing in the same tones they might today reserve for Jacob Bronowski or Kenneth Clarke (although he deviates wildly from their patrician manner). It’s sad that he’s the anomaly rather than the rule, but I guess Capital doesn’t nurture such talents much…
