Monday, March 19, 2018

Documentary Filmmaker Jason Barket's Marx Reloaded On DVD From Icarus Films On May 1


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Icarus Films has tabbed May Day (May 1), appropriately enough, as the DVD release date for documentary filmmaker Jason Barker’s Marx Reloaded, a retrospective look at the 2008 financial meltdown from a Karl Marx perspective.

Timed for the bicentennial celebration of 19th Century German philosopher Karl Marx’s birthday (May 8), Marx Reloaded, makes the case that the 2008 financial crisis — brought on by the collapse of the housing market — could have (would have) been predicted by the writing of Marx.   In presenting his case, Barker (in interviews) hit upon the idea of using the Matrix and the “red pill/blue pill” sequence as a metaphor to make the subject a little less “dry.”

A number of academics are interviewed in the documentary, including Oxford political philosopher John Gray (author of “False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism”), author Michael Hardt (author of “Empire” and “Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire), Nina Power (academic and author of “One-Dimensional Woman”) and philosopher Slavoj Žižek. 
 
There is also a clever animated sequence featuring Marx in debate with Leon Trotsky, which plays off of the Matrix conceit.

Icarus Films has included Marx Reloaded Bob Godfrey’s 1979 animated short film titled Marx for Beginners.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


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