Adam Curtis | Inquiry - The Great British Housing Disaster | (1984)

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Can't Get You Out Of My Head | (2021) https://rumble.com/playlists/dfM0eugWsFI

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace | (2011) https://rumble.com/playlists/UEeqeUNA5tM

Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone | (2022) https://rumble.com/playlists/I12Kd8gTf8A

The Great British Housing Disaster is an “Inquiry” film produced by the BBC. It does not feature Curtis’s trademark narration — David Jones does the honors here — nor his surreal use of popular music, but his masterful editing is still on view, as Curtis tells a complex story through an accumulation of interviews and news clips. Also apparent in this film is Curtis’s ire toward the mystifying aspect of bureaucracy, the way power disguises itself behind veils of false complexity so that it can function in the dark. One could call this the Kafkaesque element of Curtis’s social criticism.