It Felt Like A Kiss 5/6 Adam Curtis (2009)

It Felt Like a Kiss is an olfactory-audiovisual promenade-style theatre production, themed on "how power really works in the world."

"I wanted to do a film about what it actually felt like to live through that time ... Where you could see the roots of the uncertainties we feel today, the things they did out on the dark fringes of the world that they didn't really notice at the time, which would then come back to haunt us." Adam Curtis

"Imagine walking into a disused building. You find yourself inside a film. It is a ghost story where unexpected forces, veiled by the American Dream, come out from the dark to haunt you"

According to Adam Curtis the production is "the story of an enchanted world that was built by American power as it became supreme...and how those living in that dream world responded to it". He has also said; "its trying to show to you that the way you feel about yourself and the way you feel about the world today is a political product of the ideas of that time.

"The politics of our time," according to Curtis, "are deeply embedded in the ideas of individualism...but it's not the be-all-and-end-all...the notion that you only achieve your true self if your dreams, your desires, are satisfied...it's a political idea".

Felix Barrett has stated that the production was influenced by his love of ghost trains and haunted houses, and by the idea of blurring fiction with reality: "It takes the idea of the viewer as voyeur and asks at what point are you watching, inside or even starring in the film".

The development of new techniques of interrogation by "everyone over Level 7" in the CIA during the 1960s is a theme of the production, and the suggestibility of human beings is something that the production seeks to highlight.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Adam Curtis
• It Felt Like A Kiss
• 2009
• Documentary
• Century Of The Self
• Pandora's Box
• Power Of Nightmares
• The Trap
• Promenade
• Audio Visual Performance
• American Politics
• CIA
• Rock Hudson
• Dorris Day
• Saddam Hussein
• Richard Nixon
• Lee Harvey Oswald

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

Can you please upload part 1 again with audio =)

you will be rewarded :)

[repikkoorb]

@PNACATTACKdotCOM I already did reupload parts 1-4 and still Youtube fucks me. Sorry mate, try bittorrent.

[mookie2637]

@The3rdPlateau I like his work too, but Roger has a real point. A good three quarters of Curtis's work reflects how a kind of interpellation of people as market-choice rationalists is the only definition of freedom we have left. I have a lot of sympathy with that, but wish he could be a bit more rigourous about it, instead of relying on his sense of visual style and a set of quite blase assertions. He did used to be a university academic before he went into television btw...

[fcgfgcfg]

I couln't find part 4?

[revpunk1977]

What was that building fire at the end?

[The3rdPlateau]

@RogerHoare Well of course they are simplified, it's a he's a documentary filmmaker not a university history professor...he presents them as if they were the correct ones, yes...but then I think most documentary filmmakers do the same, so he isn't alone, nor is he the first to do so.  I find his work to be among the best documentaries I have ever seen (I watch a lot of documentaries...a lot). Anyways I've never heard much of his perspective on "individualism" but I'm sure I will at some point

[The3rdPlateau]

@repikkoorb well thanks for trying, we all appreciate it. I love Adam Curtis's work by the way; you have great taste

[RogerHoare]

Adam Curtis's carrer has exploited the 'suggestibility" of human beings, with his over-simplified and highly selective re-interpretations of 20th Century history. They may only represent his opinions, but Curtis nevertheless presents his interpretations unequivocally as if they are the correct ones. And Curtis obviously has a bee in his bonnet about "individualism", but his interpretation of this "individualism" seems pathetically narrow. He seems to be a little like the bullies he criticizes.

[099749]

@099749 cont...

Realise the old would say they same, if new contemp stuff was present- possibilites are endless.

Adam curtist is a genius!

[099749]

Jux-2-position is not bad actually.

Although I wish I was older as there is so much in this I know nothing about, and the true meaning is therefore impossible for me to recieve. unless I go investigate each one, it significance at the time, its impact- how beautiful.

The wonder.

Just leaves me to say, Thank you Adam Curtis. I think it's your best work yet.

[itkapatanka]

oops Siran Siran didn't kill RFK....!