A darkly comic and tender story of love and companionship in “Alien: Alone”
Noah Miller, “Alien: Alone” (2019) After seeing all six short films made in 2019 to mark the 40th anniversary of the cinematic release of Ridley Scott’s…
Worker solidarity to save the day and a mining colony in “Alien: Ore”
Kailey and Sam Spear, “Alien: Ore” (2019) To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film “Alien”, the film production company 20th Century Fox…
The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?: how the insanity begins and how it can be cured
“The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?” (Academy of Ideas, 24 April 2021) In past centuries, mass psychosis in…
The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky: how ideas and ideologies lay the groundwork for mass psychosis and control
“The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky” (Academy of Ideas, 31 March 2021) Drawing on the work of psychoanalysts Carl Jung and Joost Meerloo, this…
Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? – how mass delusion forms through real, imagined or fabricated threats
Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? (Academy of Ideas, 27 February 2021) Academy of Ideas is a Canadian-based website that explores and explains…
The Testimonies Project: an important visual document of individual suffering from COVID-19 vaccines
“The Testimonies Project: Testimonies after COVID-19 vaccination” (The Israeli People’s Committee, 2021) In early 2021 the Israeli government began a drive to get as many Israeli…
Australian and New Zealand Films
The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han: Western society as a landscape of over-achievement, exhaustion, stress and burnout
Joshua Krook, “The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han” (28 February 2021) In his theory on mass formation psychosis, Belgian clinical psychologist Dr Mattias Desmet identified four features…
Why Do So Many Still Buy Into The Narrative? – a talk on mass psychosis in Western societies under pandemic conditions
Dan Astin-Gregory, “Why Do So Many Still Buy Into The Narrative?” (Dan Astin-Gregory / Pandemic Podcast, 22 September 2021) Dan Astin-Gregory is an entrepreneur, strategist and…
Rendezvous in Space: space exploration documentary with faith in humanity and scientific progress
Frank Capra, “Rendezvous in Space” (1964) A promotional industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Corporation – a precursor of Lockheed Martin – this curious documentary,…
Public Latrines in Ancient Rome: a droll introduction to Classical Roman daily life, culture and attitudes
Garrett Ryan, “Public Latrines in Ancient Rome” (Toldinstone, 15 December 2021) In the space of seven minutes (as twenty seconds are devoted to the mention of…