Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis (* 1955 ) is a British documentary filmmaker . His films, in which he can usually be heard himself as a speaker, and the theses presented in them are discussed in many ways and often controversially.
Life
Curtis studied human sciences at the University of Oxford and graduated with a bachelor's degree . Then he began a doctoral thesis and was active as a lecturer in political science, but broke off his doctoral thesis and turned to his television career . He applied to the BBC , for which he shot his first short films, for example for the magazine That's Life! before he turned to his first major documentary film projects. His close working relationship with the BBC continues to this day, and his films have so far all been produced by the television station.
Curtis' documentaries and series Pandoras Box (1992), The Mayfair Set (2000) and The Power of Nightmares (2004) each received a British Academy Film Award . Curtis himself also received several awards, such as the 2005 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival , the 2006 Alan Clarke Prize at the BAFTA and the 2009 Inspiration Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.
Curtis runs the blog The Medium and the Message on the BBC website .
Filmography (selection)
- 1984: Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
- 1988: To Ocean Apart . Episode 1 "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson". About the process of how the US came to intervene in World War I.
- 1989: Inside Story: The Road To Terror . How the Iranian Revolution turned into terror, with parallels to the French Revolution .
- 1992: Pandora's Box . (Documentary series)
- 1995: The Living Dead . (Documentary series)
- 1996: 25 million pounds . Study of Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank .
- 1997: The Way of All Flesh
- 1999: The Mayfair Set
- 2002: The Century of the Self . Describes the influence of Sigmund Freud's family and his psychoanalysis on the 20th century.
- 2004: The Power of Nightmares . Three-part BBC documentary about the emergence of neoconservatism and Islamism and the use of fear and enemy images in politics.
- 2007: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (BBC Two). Series about the modern concept of freedom.
- 2011: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (BBC Two). The computer as a model of the world around us.
- 2015: Bitter Lake (BBC iPlayer)
- 2016: HyperNormalization (BBC iPlayer)
Individual evidence
- ↑ BAFTA, 2000: Best Factual Series ( Memento from October 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ BAFTA, 2004: Best Factual Series
- ^ San Francisco International Film Festival ( Memento from January 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sheffield Doc / Fest, Inspiration Award
- ^ Adam Curtis: The Medium and the Message
Web links
- Adam Curtis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Adam Curtis's blog on bbc.co.uk , launched June 2009
- Interview: Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot - Interview with "The Register", November 2007.
- Adam Curtis joins BBC Current Affairs
- The Power Of Nightmares, BBC site
- The Observer : The Exorcist (profile)
- The Guardian Article on the Power of Nightmares
- GreenCine Interview from May 2005
- Creating Islamist phantoms Guardian, August 2005
- Interview: It Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Thing : Errol Morris talks with Adam Curtis, The Believer , October 2005
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Curtis, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British documentary filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |