Orwell: 2+2=5

Nominated for the Golden Eye at Cannes, the timely new documentary from Raoul Peck and NEON comes to the Circle for one week only in the screenign room starting Fri 11/21.

1h59min - Doc - Rated R for violent content and brief nudity - English

From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck ("I Am Not Your Negro"), Orwell is the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate. ‍"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...," wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984. Today, the "newspeak" of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places, from the rise of AI Chatbot to the Russian propaganda machine, from the marketing webs of commercial metaverses to the political banning of books in the Southern United States. Peck's "Orwell" will use George Orwell's life, work and legacy as a maverick iconoclastic writer to jam the signals of the algorithms gone rogue which, in the name of personal freedom, threaten to close our minds to a greater possibility.