![]() ![]() Together, they’ve been trying to evolve yet another new way of doing documentary-a kind of full-bore son et lumière sensory-onslaught archival-footage extravaganza. ![]() ![]() Lately, he’s been deep in collaboration with the Bristol-based trip-hop band Massive Attack. And has done so with not just the Beeb’s consent but its support-sort of like what might happen if Oliver Stone got his hands on the national-security archives and remixed them for PBS. Both a new-model essayist (his work layers meandering narration over found footage) and a new-model paranoid (often finding at the centers of power not nefarious behavior so much as rank incompetence), Curtis has spent two decades cutting the endless BBC film archive into a series of brainy, free-associative mash-up meditations on the course of empire. He’s more like a wildly heterodox, extravagantly assured, occasionally quite loopy and often self-ironizing history lecturer. Considered by the likes of Errol Morris and Walter Murch to be one of the most fascinating filmmakers operating in the world today, Curtis is hardly a documentarian at all. To characterize the BBC’s Adam Curtis as a documentary filmmaker is correct as far as it goes, but it’s a bit like describing Keith Jarrett as a mere piano player: There’s that, but so much more. ![]()
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