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    Adam Curtis, documentary filmmaker extraordinaire combines fluid brushstrokes with acute observations in the medium of documentary reportage. One of the very finest exponents of this craft who presents history in a way accessible, revealing, and educational to the viewer.

    He has been favourably compared to Picasso by some and there can be little doubt that he has made - and continues to make - the very highest quality visual journals.

    The Avalon Library contains downloadable examples of his work, to include his most recent 6 part series from February 2021 Can't Get You Out of My Head along with perhaps my personal favourite The Mayfair Set.

    In an interview from 2012, best summed up by Hans Ulrich Obrist:

    Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a
    number of serial documentaries and films for the
    BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage
    and a wide range of avant-garde filmmaking
    techniques. The films are linked through their
    interest in using and reassembling the fragments
    of the past – recorded on film and video―to try
    and make sense of the chaotic events of the
    present. I first met Adam Curtis at the
    Manchester International Festival thanks to Alex
    Poots, and while Curtis himself is not an artist,
    many artists over the last decade have become
    increasingly interested in how his films break
    down the divide between art and modern political
    reportage, opening up a dialogue between the
    two.

    This multi-part interview with Adam Curtis
    began in London last December, and is the most
    recent in a series of conversations published by
    e-flux journal that have included Raoul Vaneigem,
    Julian Assange, Toni Negri, and others, and I am
    pleased to present it in the coming issues the
    journal in conjunction with a solo exhibition I have
    curated of Curtis’s films from 1989 to the present
    day. The exhibition is designed by Liam Gillick,
    and will be on view at e-flux in New York from
    February 11–April 14, 2012.
    – Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Interview source - Part 1: e-flux

    Interview source - Part 2: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/33/68...urtis-part-ii/

    PDF download: Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I (from 2012)

    PDF download: Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part II

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    Part 1

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    Default Re: Adam Curtis | Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Adam Curtis (from 2012)

    Tintin,
    I really love it. Thank you for posting it. Do you have also The Mayfair Set?

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    Default Re: Adam Curtis | Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Adam Curtis (from 2012)

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    Tintin,
    I really love it. Thank you for posting it. Do you have also The Mayfair Set?
    Yes, that is in the library main directory and in 4 parts.

    Search 'Mayfair' or 'Curtis', maybe wait a minute or so, and it should appear.

    Failing that:

    Episode 1 https://avalonlibrary.net/The_Mayfai...%201999%29.mp4
    Episode 2
    https://avalonlibrary.net/The_Mayfai...%201999%29.mp4
    Episode 3
    https://avalonlibrary.net/The_Mayfai...%201999%29.mp4
    Episode 4
    https://avalonlibrary.net/The_Mayfai...%201999%29.mp4

    We've also got HyperNormalisation and Bitter Lake in there too. I've got others in my personal library as well which could, and probably should, be added
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    Default Re: Adam Curtis | Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Adam Curtis (from 2012)

    Wow, never heard of this man but his work is fantastic, thankyou so much. Have just seen the first episode and will definitely work my way through his oeuvre.

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