May 3, 2009
Yesterday I sat through 3 HotDocs film screenings and although I saw some good stuff, it was the Austrian film Let’s Make Money that was the stand out pic by far. The film is directed by Erwin Wagenhofer and it focusses on the banks of the world and how the wealth of the world is manipulated to become concentrated into the hands of very few and finally hoarded in offshore banks and removed from general circulation. But that’s too simple an overview of the film. It also deals with third world debt, privatization, ecologically unsound investment schemes, covert CIA operations, and general government corruption. All favourite topics of mine, and although it’s hardly news to anyone these days that governments are out to screw us, the investment atrocities depicted in this film are totally mind-blowing. I recommend this film 100%. And calculating for inflation, I’ll make that 110%. I also saw 2 other HotDocs film screenings yesterday. in the afternoon I went to a screening of Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before (the Q&A was more interesting than the film), and late in the evening I caught the film Stolen Art, which was kinda slow and I dozed off a bit near the end (but this film screened with it, an animated short called Lies, was brilliant!).

Yesterday I sat through 3 HotDocs film screenings and although I saw some good stuff, it was the Austrian film Let’s Make Money that was the stand out pic by far. The film is directed by Erwin Wagenhofer and it focusses on the banks of the world and how the wealth of the world is manipulated to become concentrated into the hands of very few and finally hoarded in offshore banks and removed from general circulation. But that’s too simple an overview of the film. It also deals with third world debt, privatization, ecologically unsound investment schemes, covert CIA operations, and general government corruption. All favourite topics of mine, and although it’s hardly news to anyone these days that governments are out to screw us, the investment atrocities depicted in this film are totally mind-blowing. I recommend this film 100%. And calculating for inflation, I’ll make that 110%.

I also saw 2 other HotDocs film screenings yesterday. in the afternoon I went to a screening of Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before (the Q&A was more interesting than the film), and late in the evening I caught the film Stolen Art, which was kinda slow and I dozed off a bit near the end (but this film screened with it, an animated short called Lies, was brilliant!).

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