Adam Curtis | |
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 Curtis in 2005 | |
| Born | Kevin Adam Curtis 26 May 1955 |
| Education | Mansfield College, Oxford (BA) |
| Occupation | Documentary filmmaker |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Awards | BAFTA (1993, 2000, 2006, 2023) |
| Website | www |
Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker.[1] Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of Pandora's Box (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.[2]
His style has been described as involving, "whiplash digressions, menacing atmospherics and arpeggiated scores, and the near-psychedelic compilation of archival footage", narrated by Curtis himself with "patrician economy and assertion".[3] His films have won five BAFTAs.
- ^ Andrew Anthony (4 January 2015). "Adam Curtis: Cult film-maker with an eye for the unsettling". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ Darke, Chris (17 July 2012). "Interview: Adam Curtis." Film Comment. Archived from the original.
- ^ Jacobson, Gavin (15 February 2021). "Adam Curtis: "Big Tech and Big Data have been completely useless in this crisis"". New Statesman. Retrieved 15 February 2021.