The zeitgeist movement is a grassroots international network poorly organized crank movement promoting a change in the current spirit of the time hence the name the zeitgeist movement that was formed in response to peter josephs zeitgeist. It has attracted a large underground following, largely on the internet. From the creator of the zeitgeist film series, comes a new web series that takes on the grand distortion we call. The goal is to reunite or get to know new people among the scandinavian chapters, discuss our weaknesses within chapters, develop a better strategy to make tzm more effective, and to talk about preparations for the coming zeitgeist european meetup in sweden next year. Official website for peter josephs award winning documentary trilogy its one world. Please support peter josephs new, upcoming film project. Zeitgeist is a documentary in the loosest sense of the word that is split into three distinct parts. According to the daily telegraph, the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ecology and scientific administration of society. Z day or zeitgeist awareness day was hailed as a worldwide film promotional day on. Ill give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to youthful foolishness. You ask about the series yet you and most answers focus on the first movie.
He is best known for the zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrated, scored, and produced. The movie 2007 is a treatment on mythology and belief in society. Ive found no reference to any educational or professional experience pertaining to any of the subjects covered in the movie. Peter joseph is an interesting guy, which makes this movie especially disappointing. The movie was the ultimate expression of demanding critical thought. Directed, written and narrated by peter joseph it takes a special kind of moron to make a film this bad. The zeitgeist movement organization for global social change. Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution.
Understanding zeitgeist means understanding its creator, peter joseph merola, a young musician, artist, and freelance film editor living in new york city, at last account. The movie is a documentary created by peter joseph that came out in 2007. The movie in 2007, he reached out to the films director, peter joseph, and turned josephs attention to some of frescos work that center on the idea of a new global economy. Zeitgeist was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the. Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Addendum is a 2008 film produced and directed by peter joseph, and is a sequel to the 2007 film, zeitgeist. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction. However, this is an aside for the zeitgeist film series, while an inspiration for the movement which shares the term zeitgeist, is not to be confused with the content views of the films in detail, which are personal to peter joseph alone. Skeptic project is a web site dedicated to investigating the internets most common conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and so on. Do peter josephs series of zeitgeist films hold any water. Peter joseph is an american musician, filmmaker, author and social activist. Same goes for the long held up cry of manipulative filmmaking, such as when footage of the madrid subway bombing was used to introduce a section on the 77 london bombings. Moving forward 2011 by director peter joseph is a 162 minute film work which continues what the prior two films of the zeitgeist film series started. A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.
It was officially released online on june 18, 2007 on. What is the zeitgeist movement and who is peter joseph. Peter joseph is the director of zeitgeist perhaps the most watched internet documentary of all time and its two sequels. Peter joseph creator of zeitgeist believes that im mentally ill because i disagree with him. Zeitgeist is a series of three documentary films released between 2007 and 2011 that present a. The group is critical of market capitalism, describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The film includes facts regarding the federal reserve system in the united states, the cia, corporate america and others, concluding the advocation of a libertarian movement called the venus project, created by social. He is the founder of the zeitgeist movement, which has chapters around the world actively exploring the transition to a resourcebased economy. Addendum documentary basically a conspiratorial fringe rehash of the technocracy movement, their ideas are derived from multiple sources, primarily.
Qualifizierte bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. Rap news featured on russia today current tv users vote the zeitgeist film series as 4th in top ten must see documentaries. The zeitgeist movement is an economicsustainability movement at its core and its relationship to the. He also founded and curates the annual zeitgeist media festival for.
After jacque fresco, founder of the venus project, viewed zeitgeist. With jacque fresco, roxanne meadows, john perkins, george carlin. He is the founder of the related the zeitgeist movement. Peter joseph quotes author of the new human rights movement. The zeitgeist movement is an activist movement established in the united states in 2008 by peter joseph. Addendum was born out of public interest in possible solutions to the cultural issues presented in zeitgeist.
The event was given over a 6night period in new york city and then, without any interest to professionally release or. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. In late 2009 i was able to interview peter joseph, the creator of zeitgeist, the movie and zeitgeist addendum. With chogyam trungpa, jordan maxwell, george carlin, bill hicks. Interreflections by joining the mailing list and helping. Book, the new human rights movement, 2017 published by ben bella.
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon. I personally ignore the first movie because of all the controversy and it is actually really hard to find out the truth about those subjects. Official website for peter josephs satirical video series. Addendum was premiered at the 5th annual artivists film festival and given its highest award in 2008. Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by peter joseph, is a continuation of the film zeitgeist, the movie. The movie is a 2007 film by peter joseph presenting a number of conspiracy theories. Zeitgeist video 2007 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Though its quite controversial, it has helped to popularize many conspiracy theory type beliefs. Peter joseph is an american independent filmmaker and activist. With peter joseph, robert sapolsky, gabor mate, richard wilkinson. Zeitgeist, the movie debunked part two skeptic project. He was kind enough to provide me with previously unreleased media and video and i in turn did my. The zeitgeist film series noted in the top 10 films that explain why the occupy movement exists the zeitgeist film series noted in a movie guide to occupy wall street peter joseph satirized on juice media. The original zeitgeist was actually not a film, but a performance piece, which consisted of a vaudevillian style multimedia event using recorded music, live instruments and video.
A prominent underlying thesis of the film series is that a great many notions, beliefs and practices. You can read all about it on his forums linked from this forum post, with a blogbased rebuttal here. Building upon the topics of social distortion and corruption. In this part of the film, the film maker examines the possibility. Precious little critical thinking is going on anywhere in any of this blather. Written and produced by peter joseph, the twohour film received the best feature documentary award in 2007, the year of its release, at the artivist film festival in hollywood, ca. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. He described himself and his life in details in what is likely a rare interview.