Reboot America
These are some of our favorite documentaries
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public’s perception of reality.
How Hollywood filmmakers and Madison Avenue advertisers systematically shape teen culture to ensure an appeal to their products. From going through the closet of popular kids in school, to hiring them after graduation to manipulate other teens.
Director David Lugo has a warning for the mainstream media. Citizen journalists are coming, ready to counter the false narratives peddled by the press.
