Marla Grayson lavora con successo come tutrice legale di persone anziane non più in grado di gestire le proprie finanze. Ha un grande talento nell’usare la legge a suo beneficio e a svantaggio dei suoi clienti. Ma quando entra in contatto con Jennifer, una cliente apparentemente perfetta, si rende conto che l’apparenza può essere ingannevole. Mentre si aggrapperà con tutta se stessa al suo elusivo sogno americano, Marla vivrà la più misteriosa delle avventure della sua vita…
Nel XXI secolo una manciata di progettisti digitali ha il controllo totale su come miliardi di persone pensano, agiscono e vivono le loro vite. Addetti ai lavori di Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram e YouTube rivelano come le piattaforme riprogrammino la moderna civiltà raccontando cosa si cela dall'altro lato dello schermo dei nostri dispositivi tecnologici.
An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter.
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.
A couple's evening together is disrupted by a trip to the convenience store.
A feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme Dutt's view that fascism represented an organisation of capitalist decay, to illustrate the various different laws of motion which condition the development of reactionary political movements.
As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.
A couple's evening together is disrupted by a trip to the convenience store.