Stewart Brand
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rockford, Illinois, USA
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Birthday: December 14, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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Pandora's Promise
Overview: The atomic bomb, the specter of a global nuclear holocaust, and disasters like Fukushima have made nuclear energy synonymous with the darkest nightmares of the modern world. But what if everyone has nuclear power wrong? What if people knew that there are reactors that are self-sustaining and fully controllable and ones that require no waste disposal? What if nuclear power is the only energy source that has the ability to stop climate change?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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An Ecology of Mind
Overview: 'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.' Seen through the relationship between father and daughter, this documentary is an invitation into 'systems thinking' and interrelationships in the natural world. 'Looking at what holds systems together is a radical step toward sewing the world back together, from the inside.'
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Silicon Valley Story
Overview: A playful story about the microcircuitry of love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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We Are As Gods
Overview: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” This is the audacious opening line of the Whole Earth Catalog, a compendium of wonderful tools compiled by counterculture legend Stewart Brand. A psychedelic experimenter, cyberspace pioneer, and environmentalist, he is now urging humanity to use our god-like powers to reframe our relationship with time and life itself. Today, Stewart is using biotech to resurrect extinct species. He and a team of scientists travel to Siberia to collect ancient DNA in an effort to make a hybrid Woolly Mammoth. Former allies in the environmental movement vow to stand in his way, but Stewart forges ahead in his life-long mission to conserve the whole earth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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The Net
Overview: More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
Overview: All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction
Overview: Is the notion of a real Matrix plausible? An investigation of the technologies that inspire the metaphor of the Matrix trilogy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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