Adam Curtis
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Rosie Kay has trained with the army and delved into tribal rituals for her bold dance shows. In her latest, MK Ultra, she’s investigating the secret society believed to be brainwashing Beyoncé and Bieber
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Anomalisa is our favourite film of the year. Its director shares his thoughts on road rage, Donald Trump and why we need to smile at each other more
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Documentary films have are more diverse, experimental and popular than ever before. Here we consider why, and survey the genre’s game-changers
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The HyperNormalisation director believes that the traditional documentary has failed to explain truths about the real world. Instead, we should look to fiction for answers
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It has been covered by Bruce Springsteen and Arcade Fire, and soundtracks American Honey and new Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalisation - but is it a song of hope or despair?
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Adam Curtis’s music supervisor, Gavin Miller, shares some the arpeggiated synths and creepy atmospherics that score Curtis’s latest documentary
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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
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The documentary-maker’s new film, HyperNormalisation, continues his quest to see beyond the ‘fake world’ to the hidden forces that have steered modern history
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Other first looks at Colorado festival include Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room – plus tributes to Rooney Mara and Adam Curtis
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Emma Graham-Harrison: Adam Curtis’s Afghanistan documentary occasionally oversimplifies a complex story, but overall it is a powerful film that conveys the high cost of invasion
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Sam Wollaston: beginning with a fateful meeting between President Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, Curtis delves into a mass of historical archives to shed light on Afghanistan and the west
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In his latest iPlayer-only film Bitter Lake, Adam Curtis uses his dreamlike documentary style to make sense of the west’s involvement in Afghanistan
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24 January 2015
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Yoko Ono, Gilbert and George, Gustav Metzger, Lily Cole and dozens of scientists and anthropologists come together at London’s Serpentine Gallery to confront the end of humanity, writes Hannah Ellis-Petersen
MK Ultra review – Rosie Kay, Adam Curtis and the Illuminati