Towards the end of Adam Curtis’s latest documentary, Hypernormalisation (2016), the BBC filmmaker and journalist spotlights Donald Trump’s constant policy shifts, his utilization of the extreme racist ...

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 I struggle to think a more perfect union of medium and message ...

Hypernormalisation is a term invented by Russian Professor Alexei Yurchak, to describe the fact that, during the final years of the Soviet Union, everyone knew the Soviet system was failing but no one ...

As our countdown of the year’s best TV continues, Adam Curtis’s dissection of ‘post-truth’ politics and the manipulation of global power made uncomfortable, provocative viewing – especially when it ...

Documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis is known as something of a doomsayer. His latest six-part BBC documentary Can’t Get You Out of My Head chronicles the intersections and parallels between the rise of ...

One of the key scenes in Adam Curtis’s monumental new documentary HyperNormalisation shows a woman engaging with ELIZA. ELIZA was a psychotherapy computer programme developed in 1966 that comforted ...