Stream Adam Curtis Documentaries on BBC iPlayer Abroad
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Our simple guide to watching Adam Curtis documentaries on BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world.
Curtis’s documentaries are some of the most complex, compelling, and irresistible works of art to ever grace the small screen.
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New Release: Can’t Get You Out of My Head
Can’t Get You Out of My Head is a rich tapestry of rare archive footage buttressed by a haunting soundtrack of subterranean pop melodies, ethereal soundscapes, and bloodcurdling drones.
Here's a microdose of Curtis's latest doc-series Can't Get You Out of My Head.
Curtis’s latest instalment is stylistically his finest accomplishment to date. Revelling in its arthouse kudos, the doco film utilises par excellence his signature bricolage method of splicing together seemingly disparate narrative strands, which look to the fringes and minutia of history in what becomes an interrogation of the human condition from the analogue to the digital ages.
Those revisiting Adam Curtis’s oeuvre on BBC iPlayer will know that each instalment is its own house of mirrors, each a delve into the dark depths of the human psyche; like a post-punk David Attenborough doing anthropology on contemporary civilisation Curtis’s work offers us a critically astute psychedelic, synthesised to unpick our assumptions about free will, American housewives, West Germany and Valium.
According to Curtis his work is a “history” of feelings, a filmography of why you feel the way you do. Curtis asks why we believe that what we feel inside us is the most important thing in the world. And explores how this (post)modern truism has led us to be consumed by “a sense of anxiety, uncertainty and fear about the future”.
Dark Mirror's Charlie Brooker is a fan
Here’s the new Adam Curtis documentary on iPlayer. I think it’s brilliant. https://t.co/QezTna8PTB
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) February 11, 2021
The best moments in Can’t Get You Out of My Head are those in which he seamlessly intersplices what appear on the surface to be disparate and unconnected historical events, in finding concourse between Maoist Opera and US suburbia, between provincial England and the drawing up of borders in the Middle East, and in explaining how these events have helped shape the interior of your mind.
Final Words
Curtis’s brilliance lies in his success at rendering this history of the insubstantial palpable, his assemblage of real footage and sounds lure you in while Curtis’ narrative attempts to chart what he sees as an affective stranglehold of contemporary beliefs.
Watching Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone will only add to the widespread appreciation for his work. The latest release builds upon the filmmaker's style but with a new twist.
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