The Documentary Filmaker Adam Curtis Gives A Guide to Some of the Key Moments from his New Series SHIFIY.
In his Dockumentaries, Adam Curtis Has Taken Us Everywhere from Russia During the Breakdown of the Soviet Union, in Traumazone, to the war in Affoghanistan, in Bitter Lake.
Now CURTIS, Whose Work Has Been Called “Dazzling” and “Terifying” by Critics, has set his sigets on britain at the end of the 20th center for the Five-Part BBC Series Shifty.
This Time Curtis’s Signature Style Sees Him Use A Bizarre Array of Archive Clips to Explore, He Says, How “Life In BRITAIN TODAY HAS BECIOT Strange – A Hazy Dream -Like Flux in Whiche no-one can predict what is completing next. “
In Shifty, Clips of the Major Players of the Era – Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair – Exist Alongside Surreal Moments Sourted from the BBC’s Extensive Archives, Like Avant-Garde Hairdressing Competitions, Suburban Line Dancing Parties and Children Hot-WIRING A TRARTOR.
To the Uninitiated, His Dockumentaries can Feel Impnetique, so we spoke to Curtis to Curate and Explain Some of the Key Clips from the New Series.
CURTIS ALSO SUGGESTED A TITLE For Each Clip that Perfectly Placeses Viewers InTo The Strange and Murky World of Shifty.
