Is the Art World Responsible for Trump? Filmmaker Adam Curtis on Why Self-Expression Is Tearing Society Apart

On mute, an Adam Curtis film might feel like the kind of montage you learn about in Video Art 101, with startling jump cuts between passages of seemingly incongruous found footage. But turn on the volume and the visuals become an illustrated essay about power-invisible power, the most dangerous kind, and the ways that it shapes the world we live in.