This is one of the two feature-length documentaries on the Ultimate Matrix Collection. It goes over many philosophical concepts that inspired, and are presented in, the trilogy. They spend the first half on the original film, and the rest of the time then goes over parts 2 and 3, with a couple of things on [...]
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of [...]
A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the machines that we have built, seeing everything in the world today through the eyes of computers. This episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. The film argues it is because all political dreams of changing the [...]
A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don’t realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. This is the story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, the self-regulating ecosystem, is [...]
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a three part BBC documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Trap and The Power of Nightmares. In this episode Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand’s ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan. Ayn [...]
