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    documentary film by Adam Curtis

    HyperNormalisation

    Title card

    Written byAdam Curtis
    Directed byAdam Curtis
    Country of originUnited Kingdom
    Original languageEnglish
    ProducerSandra Gorel
    Running time minutes
    Production companyBBC
    BudgetUS$80,
    Release16&#;October&#;&#;()

    HyperNormalisation is a BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October on BBC iPlayer.

    Etymology

    The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the s and s. He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.

    Chapters

    The film contains nine chapters and is composed primarily of montage with voice-over.

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    by Michael Vazquez

    Two weeks after the close of the New York Film Festival, herewith, my first posting, by way of random notes on thirty-nine films: Prisoner 13, El Compadre Mendoza, Let's Go With Pancho Villa, Pale Flower, Silence, Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Police Incident, Nuremberg, Carlos, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Film Socialisme, Foreign Parts, Mysteries of Lisbon, The Tempest, Revolucion, Aurora, Protect The Nation, Boxing Gym, Another Year, Gatos Viejos, Black Venus, Certified Copy, We Are What We Are, The Social Network, Inside Job, The Warning, Hereafter, Career Girls, Naked, The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Smithereens, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Sophie's Choice, The Devil Wears Prada, Medea, Scenes From A Marriage, Anti-Christ, Roger & Me, The Last of England

    It's quite possible that the nine (five vintage, four new) historically-themed films which comprised my dizzying first week of press screenings at this festival may be remembered by me as the most important. None of these are main slate films; they are from the specially curated element of the NYFF and as such, they may not get as much attention, but here's why I think they hold value for you, fellow New Yorker.

    To be certain, this is about a curatorial flow; more than half of these films are not new, and nearly all are available on DVD.

    And it's worth noting that all of the five new films are rooted in the past, in history. Cameraman: The Life of Jack Cardiff boasts a loving study of vintage film clips; Nuremberg is a restoration, re-narration of the US government-commissioned documentary from ; Ceausescu is culled exclusively from Romanian state films; Carlos is a biopic about revolutionary-slash-terrorist Carlos "The Jackal's", reign during the 70s and 80s and is thus, by definition, a hub of sorts for recent history's bloody geopolitical swirl. Only the two film

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    • Elena Ceaușescu

    Romanian politician and first lady (–)

    Elena Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation:[eˈlenatʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January – 25 December ) was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania. Following the Romanian Revolution in , she was executed alongside her husband on 25 December.

    Background

    She was born Lenuța Petrescu into a peasant family in Petreșticommune, Dâmbovița County, in the historical region of Wallachia. Her father worked as a ploughman. She was able to acquire only an elementary school level education. After elementary school, she moved along with her brother to Bucharest, where she worked as a laboratory assistant before finding employment in a textile factory. She joined the Bucharest branch of the Romanian Communist Party in and met year-old Nicolae Ceaușescu. Ceaușescu was instantly attracted to her which, reportedly, made him never look at another woman in a romantic manner. Their relationship was interrupted by Ceaușescu's frequent stints in prison, and they married on 23 December

    Career in government

    After the Communists took power, Elena Ceaușescu worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was an unimportant figure until her husband became Communist Party General Secretary.

    Elena Ceaușescu frequently accompanied her husband on official visits abroad. During a state visit to the People's Republic of China in June , she took note of how Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao Zedong's wife, maintained a position of power. Most likely inspired by this, she began to engineer her own political rise in Romania. In July , after a mini-cultural revolution launched by her husband, she was elected a member of the Central Commission on Socio-Economic Forecasting. Starting in July , Elena Ceaușe

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