One of the key scenes in Adam Curtis’s monumental new documentary HyperNormalisation shows a woman engaging with ELIZA. ELIZA was a psychotherapy computer programme developed in 1966 that comforted ...

Towards the end of Adam Curtis’s latest documentary, Hypernormalisation (2016), the BBC filmmaker and journalist spotlights Donald Trump’s constant policy shifts, his utilization of the extreme racist ...

Documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis is known as something of a doomsayer. His latest six-part BBC documentary Can’t Get You Out of My Head chronicles the intersections and parallels between the rise of ...

'We live in a strange time …' murmurs Adam Curtis at the very beginning of his latest masterfully built but contentiously structured foray into the accumulated BBC footage archive from around the ...

Acclaimed filmmaker, Adam Curtis brings his new epic film, HyperNormalisation to BBC iPlayer this October. The film will premiere at 9pm on Sunday 16 October. BBC iPlayer offers an extraordinary place ...

Hypernormalisation is a term invented by Russian Professor Alexei Yurchak, to describe the fact that, during the final years of the Soviet Union, everyone knew the Soviet system was failing but no one ...

Following the pilot episode last week, our editor hosts his second radio show in the key of the new Adam Curtis documentary. What is HyperNormalisation? The term comes from the Soviet Union, to ...