Film-maker Adam Curtis on why this moment feels so weird

Adam Curtis is a journalist who delves deep into the BBC archive to make films about the ideas and feelings that define our times.
In his latest series of films, Shifty, Curtis charts how Margaret Thatcher and her government transformed Britain by transferring power to the world of finance and by promoting a radical individualism.
In conversation with Michael Safi, Curtis discusses the way his films try to capture what an idea feels like, how the ideas of the 1980s have led us to feelings of powerlessness and melancholy, and how new ideas are the key to a different future.
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