System Error
Politicians, economists and the media are obsessed with economic growth. But why do we still cling to this concept? Clearly it is impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet.
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Speed: In Search of Lost Time
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Director
Florian Opitz
Production
Oliver Stolz for Dreamer Joint Venture
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ARTE
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Privatisation - for Minda in Manila, Bongani in Soweto and Simon in Brighton, this is a more than an abstract notion. It is the life-threatening reality they deal with every day. Minda is struggling to find money for the dialysis her son needs because Philippine health care has been largely privatised and the poor don't have access to it anymore. Bongani and his team of 'electro-guerillas' illegally restore electricity to homes of poor South African people. And Simon relates his adventures as a train driver, first for British Rail, and then for countless other firms that come and go with a regularity that has long disappeared from the train schedule. The victory of the citizens of Cochabamba, Bolivia, against an US corporation that tried to control the municipal water supply adds a note of hope to the film. The storylines are contrasted with interviews with 'the other side', those responsible for the privatisations and commented by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who left the ranks of the doers to fight for the losers.
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2013