Maxed Out (2006)

미국 리먼 브라더스의 파산 신청과 최대 보험사 AIG의 몰락은 미국 경제를 뒤흔들었다. 월 스트리트 쇼크로 글로벌 주식 시장은 그 즉시 휘청거렸다. 전 세계는 수십 조 달러의 빚더미에 올라앉았고 경제 침체는 계속되었다. 집 값과 자산은 대폭락했고, 3천만 명이 해고됐으며, 5천만 서민들은 극빈자가 되었다. 세계 경제를 파탄으로 내몰았지만… 여전히 돈과 권력을 손에 쥐고 있을 주범들은 과연 어디 있는가.

British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent of Money documentary. Through interviews with top experts, such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and American currency speculator George Soros, the intricate world of finance, including global commerce, banking and lending, is examined thoroughly.

포츈지 기자의 베스트 셀러에 기초하여 미국 역사상 최대의 스캔들로 기록된 엔론의 파산을 다룬 다큐멘터리. 7대 기업에 속하던 엔론이 파산하던 순간, 엔론의 최고 경영진은 10억 달러 이상의 돈을 챙겨서 유유히 사라졌으며 투자자와 노동자들은 모든 것을 잃어버렸다.

1999년 마틴 암스트롱의 사무실에 들이닥친 FBI는, 그에게 3조원 규모의 폰지사기 혐의를 씌우고 그가 개발한 경제전환예측 컴퓨터 프로그램을 압수한다. 정부의 의도는 과연 무엇이었을까? 법정 모독 혐의로 재판도 없이 7년 동안 수감되었던 그는, 오늘날 국가 부채 위기의 도래를 예언하며 2015년 10월 1일 이후 경제위기가 전세계로 번져나갈 것이라고 말한다.

미국은 자유의 나라로 알려져 있다. 미국의 모든 용감한 기업 개척자들은 자유를 외쳤고, 또한 일찍이 정부의 헌법제정자들은 이를 민주주의라는 형태의 포맷으로 취해왔다. 그리고 어디서나, 어떤 방식으로든 "자본주의"라는 형식은 미국의 역사 길을 따라오게 되었고, 그것은 헌법이나 권리장전에서 항상 신성시 되어 왔다. 마이클 무어의 다큐멘터리 영화인 "자본주의: 러브스토리" 는 자본주의의 결점과 약점을 부각시키고 변호하는 방식으로 감독 본인의 추측을 기반으로 만들어진 주관적이면서 객관적인 다큐멘터리이다. 마이클 무어 감독은 최근 미국에 닥친 불황은 예측 가능했던 사건의 일례라고 주장한다. 영화를 보고 나면, 특히 부가영상들까지 보고 나면 (부가영상에는 관객들의 쉬운 이해를 위해 각종 관계자들의 인터뷰와 스피치, 강의내용 등을 기록하였다) 관객들은 다른 형태의 상거래가 존재한다는 것을 깨닫게 될 것이며, 또한 "자본주의" 라는 말과 "미국"이라는 단어는 같은 의미로 받아들여도 무방할거라는 의식을 관객들에게 심어주고 있다. 마이클 무어는 이 영화를 본 관객들은 이 영화에 감사하는 마음을 가지고 자리를 뜨게 될 것이라 확신한다. 미국 개봉에선 뉴욕과 LA의 4개 극장에서 1주일간 맛보기 상영한 후, 2주차에 전국 962개 극장으로 확대상영에 돌입한 첫 주말 3일 동안 445만 불의 수입을 벌어들이며 주말 박스오피스 8위에 랭크 되었다.

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world wide financial system.

For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, Congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts - even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible. Directed by Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy, Some Kind of Monster), the film features Paulson, and his wife of 40 years, Wendy. it's a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure - and a marriage under unfathomable circumstances.

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.

2008년 월스트리트, 전세계 금융위기 하루 전. 갑작스런 인원 감축으로 퇴직 통보를 받는 리스크 관리 팀장 에릭은 자신의 부하직원 피터에게 곧 닥칠 위기상황을 정리한 USB를 전하며 회사를 떠난다. 그날 밤 에릭에게 전달 받은 자료를 분석하던 MIT박사 출신의 엘리트사원 피터는 자신들이 관리하고 있는 파생상품의 심각한 문제를 발견하고 상사에게 보고한다. 그리고 이른 새벽 긴급 이사회가 소집되고, 그들만이 살아남기 위한 작전에 돌입하는데…

새 직장? 안돼도 그만! 새 남자? 생기면 좋고! 새 핸드백? 무조건 사수! 멋진 훈남보다 그녀를 더 설레게 하는 것은 바로 쇼핑! 의 그녀, ‘레베카’는 고해성사하듯 자신을 그렇게 소개한다. 괜한 말이 아니다. 지칠 줄 모르는 그녀의 쇼핑 본색. 그녀의 친구는 레베카를 타박하면서 걱정스러운 듯 쳐다 본다. 문제는 지나친 쇼핑으로 인해 카드명세서에 파묻힐 지경이라는 것! 이제 레베카는 빚을 청산하기 위해 월급이 더 쎈 직장을 찾아 나서게 되고, 하필 재테크 잡지사에 덜컥 취직하기에 이른다. 하지만 연이자율이 뭔지도 모르는 그녀. 과연, 새 직장에서 어떻게 살아 남을 것인가?

패션산업의 화려함과 저렴함 뒤에 숨은 '진짜 비용'은 과연 무엇일까? 인간과 환경, 그리고 우리 자신을 착취하는 의류산업의 진상을 낱낱이 고발한다.

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again.

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.

He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe.

Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter investigates America's mounting debt crisis in this latest hard-hitting expose. The film reveals the unknown cabal of credit card companies, lobbyists, media conglomerates and the Bush administration itself who have colluded to deregulate the lending industry, ensuring that a culture of credit dependency can flourish. Schechter exposes the hidden financial and political complex that allows the lowest wage earners to indebt themselves so heavily that even house repossessions are commonplace.

무한 이윤을 추구하는 기업이란 무엇인가? 은 놀랍고도 쇼킹한 자료화면을 풍부하게 이용하여 관객들과 함께 역사와 현대의 '기업'들에 관한 스터디 케이스를 시작한다. 노엄 촘스키, 마이클 무어, CEO 레이 앤더슨과 밀톤 프리에드만의 인터뷰를 통해 미래의 비젼을 명료하게 말하면서 사기업 뒤의 기관에 대한 집요한 기만성을 없애려 하고 있다.

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt! Money as debt II explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT… and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.

This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

An investigative (but frequently humorous) documentary on the surveillance activities of the New York City Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, known as the Red Squad. "An extraordinary political film, in which the spies - Red Squad and undercover police assigned to infiltrate the American Left - are in turn spied upon. The result: a photographic exposé of faces and agents in action, fully identified by name and title." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

The U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Division made this short documentary shortly after the end of WWII to look at the after-effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is no credited crew or cast.

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.

The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her to return to her home.

Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in the Louisiana Delta from the singular Les Blank. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of ‘60s independent cinema. The Great Blondino follows an anachronistically attired young fellow as he navigates a beguiling, sometimes troubling world with a curiosity that opens us wide to the filmmakers’ inspired, freeform vision. In many ways, the wonder of Blondino may echo the excitement of invention and exploration that Nelson and Wiley experienced in the making of the film. Utterly exuberant and freed from rote cinematic restriction, it embodies an artistic rigor and direction that also prevents it from ever seeming too unhinged. An incredible feat of tightrope walking. —Mark Toscano

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.

A documentary overview of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his life and life's work with irony, charm, humor, and a combination of joyous self-love and gentle self-depreciation. Scenes from his earlier films mix the elements of humor, magic, slapstick, melodrama, and romance which mark his aesthetic. A plethora of rich personal symbols is woven throughout the film, tied together by verbal games, Zen poems, anecdotes, songs, a child's prayer, dreams, and visions." - Karen Cooper "James Broughton's TESTAMENT is one of the most remarkable films ever produced within the American independent cinema. It is the most moving and most sublimely detached of the recent trend of filmic autobiographies - by Jerome Hill, Jonas Mekas, and Stan Brakhage, to name only the masters, and Broughton's peers." - P. Adams Sitney "A beautiful, important, mysterious work." - Amos Vogel

A film about three of our leading visual artists, Bhupen Khakar, Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram. It takes, as its point of departure, a glass mural on which all three were working, then zeros into each of them. It links them to their physical and mental worlds through cinematic devices like associative sounds, variable light and montage. Compositionally, the visuals aim to link with the styles of each artist, as well as the larger narrative traditions of India.

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the sadness, hope, or resignation of the patients. Existentialist rather than optimist, the approach is one of humanistic atheism, accepting death as part of life. Interviews with doctors and nurses explore their outlook; all speak of death as a fact, without either sentimentality or religiosity. The studied objectivity of the film only imperfectly hides an intense emotionality.

An Islamic faithfull returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title “el hadji”. On his return he falls in love with his daughter’s friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married to Garba. El Hadji however already has two wives and his second wife, Gaika, cannot stand the idea of another younger wife entering her house. She plots to kill Santou.

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Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out "to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another."

Shot in high-definition video using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. films noirs. A young man (in color) searches for his past through black-and-white scenes from "The Big Sleep," "Mildred Pierce," and "Strangers on a Train."

Life, customs and the fight for survival in the desolate wastelands of the Venezuelan plains.

Universal Citizen is a multifaceted personal travelogue that brings us to a real Universal Hotel, in Guatemala, and to the same public square in Siena that appears at the beginning of Universal Hotel; at the center of the film are Thompson's off screen meetings with a Libyan Jew and former Dachau inmate who works as a smuggler in Guatemala and refuses to be photographed. (Jonathan Rosenbaum)