HyperNormalisation: A Documentary of a Fake World

Is the world being controlled by a powerful few while the rest of us are willing puppets in the play?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Documentary filmmaker and BBC journalist Adam Curtis has developed a cult following for his eccentric films that combine BBC archival footage into artistic montages combined with dark narratives; his latest film, HyperNormalisation, came out in 2016

• HyperNormalisation tells the story of how politicians, financiers and “technological utop…