Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

2011

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

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With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain's vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surprises, Shlain constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy...

Cast

Peter Coyote
as Narrator
Tiffany Shlain
Dale Andrade
as Dale Andrade
Zbigniew Brzezinski
as Zbigniew Brzezinski
Corrado Cantatore
as Corrado Cantatore
Jonathan Clarke
Carl Colby
as Carl Colby
Barbara H. Colby
Daren Flitcroft
as Daren Flitcroft
Donald Gregg
as Donald Gregg
Seymour Hersh
as Seymour Hersh
Fisher Howe
as Fisher Howe
Thomas Hughes
as Thomas Hughes
Oleg Kalugin
as Oleg Kalugin
Bob Kerrey
as Bob Kerrey
John Langan
as John Langan
James Lilley
as James Lilley
Edward N. Luttwak
as Edward N. Luttwak
Thomas McCoy
as Thomas McCoy
Robert McFarlane
as Robert McFarlane
Elizabeth McIntosh
as Elizabeth McIntosh
H.R. McMaster
as H.R. McMaster
Prof. Hugh Montgomery
as Prof. Hugh Montgomery
John Nagl
as John Nagl
Rufus Phillips
as Rufus Phillips
Walter Pincus
as Walter Pincus
Donald Rumsfeld
as Donald Rumsfeld
James R. Schlesinger
Daniel Schorr
as Daniel Schorr
Gen. Brent Scowcroft
as Gen. Brent Scowcroft
Laurence Silberman
as Laurence Silberman
John K. Singlaub
Barbara Pindar Smith
Joseph W. Smith
as Joseph W. Smith
Evan Thomas
as Evan Thomas
Hugh Tovar
as Hugh Tovar
Judge William Webster
as Judge William Webster
Tim Weiner
as Tim Weiner
Bob Woodward
as Bob Woodward
Steve Young
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  • Apr 03, 2012
    I saw this at the 2011 Cleveland International Film Fest. Lots of interesting ideas in this doc. Daughter Tiffany makes a film about how it is a small world after all as she thinks about the concepts her father Dr. Leonard Shlain studied. We should think of the world with both hemispheres of our brains. We may want to unplug every now and then to communicate face to face with our friends and neighbors, but the internet today makes us more connected than ever and even is changing the way our neurons fire. Plus because everything is intimately connected neither independence or dependence accurately describe our world. Tiffany demonstrates that the more accurate term is interdependence. Clips from various sources including some Harold Lloyd films as well as the graphics employed make this an entertaining and informative doc.
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