Much sociological dialogue over the past few years has focused on the damage done to our society by a growing sense of powerlessness within large sections of the population. It has long been predicted that late stage capitalism and escalating environmental crises would lead to the emergence of cults at around this stage in our history, but barely anyone engaged in academic discourse raised the possibility that they would turn to magic. Most people like to imagine that our civilisation is past that – that we’ve progressed to a point where we prioritise the application of scientific method and are cautious in our reasoning – but in retrospect it ought to have been obvious. It’s what powerless people have always turned to. R Kirk Packwood was one of the first to identify this in his 2004 book Memetic Magic. In this documentary, Hayley Garrigus picks up the subject and examines...
- 8/25/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
You Can't Kill Meme Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival
Inspired by R Kirk Packwood’s 2004 book Memetic Magic, You Can’t Kill Meme is an ambitious documentary looking at the intersection of occult belief and the internet. Screened as part of the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival, it provides an introduction to the impact of such thinking on a wide range of issues, from the 2017 Kek wars to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol building, focusing in particular on its adoption by the far right. There was just something about Packwood’s book that sparked her interest, said director Hayley Garrigus when we met to discuss the film during the final days of the festival.
I tell her that the first thing it brought to mind for me was .the famous Arthur C Clarke quote ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Have we basically reached a point where...
Inspired by R Kirk Packwood’s 2004 book Memetic Magic, You Can’t Kill Meme is an ambitious documentary looking at the intersection of occult belief and the internet. Screened as part of the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival, it provides an introduction to the impact of such thinking on a wide range of issues, from the 2017 Kek wars to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol building, focusing in particular on its adoption by the far right. There was just something about Packwood’s book that sparked her interest, said director Hayley Garrigus when we met to discuss the film during the final days of the festival.
I tell her that the first thing it brought to mind for me was .the famous Arthur C Clarke quote ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Have we basically reached a point where...
- 8/25/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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I first saw Hayley Garrigus’s feature nonfiction debut, You Can’t Kill Meme, in 2019 as a work-in-progress cut. As I wrote last year, Meme is bookended by the unnerving image of an CG-animated Pepe the Frog cradled like a baby in a man’s arms before slowly turning his head. Meme branches out from 4Chan’s infamous r/pol board to interview subjects who include online meme warriors on the left and right, a self-described “lightworker” who hosts workshops at her home and R. Kirk Packwood, whose 2004 book, Memetic Magic: Manipulation of the Root Social Matrix and the Fabric of Reality, codified how memes might […]
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The post “Unfortunately, I’ve Always Been Seen as Very Earnest”: Hayley Garrigus on You Can’t Kill Meme first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/12/2021
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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I first saw Hayley Garrigus’s feature nonfiction debut, You Can’t Kill Meme, in 2019 as a work-in-progress cut. As I wrote last year, Meme is bookended by the unnerving image of an CG-animated Pepe the Frog cradled like a baby in a man’s arms before slowly turning his head. Meme branches out from 4Chan’s infamous r/pol board to interview subjects who include online meme warriors on the left and right, a self-described “lightworker” who hosts workshops at her home and R. Kirk Packwood, whose 2004 book, Memetic Magic: Manipulation of the Root Social Matrix and the Fabric of Reality, codified how memes might […]
The post “Unfortunately, I’ve Always Been Seen as Very Earnest”: Hayley Garrigus on You Can’t Kill Meme first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Unfortunately, I’ve Always Been Seen as Very Earnest”: Hayley Garrigus on You Can’t Kill Meme first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/12/2021
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival got an early 25th birthday present in the form of James Gunn’s “Suicide Squad,” which will receive a special screening on Aug. 4, the day before Fantasia officially kicks off with the world premiere of Julien Knafo’s zombie thriller “Brain Freeze.” Gunn is a long-time friend of the fest, having first attended in 1997 before later returning for the Canadian premiere of his Marvel blockbuster “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Fantasia also unveiled its second wave of features participating at this year’s festival, joining a raft of titles announced in May, and will announce the rest of its slate in late July along with details on several virtual events and this year’s juries.
New world premieres, joining the a six-pack announced last month, include Ruth Platt’s “Martyrs Lane,” Anna Zaytseva’s feature debut “#Blue_Whale,” Jonathan Rhys Meyers-starrer “Yakuza Princes” from filmmaker Vicente Amorim,...
Fantasia also unveiled its second wave of features participating at this year’s festival, joining a raft of titles announced in May, and will announce the rest of its slate in late July along with details on several virtual events and this year’s juries.
New world premieres, joining the a six-pack announced last month, include Ruth Platt’s “Martyrs Lane,” Anna Zaytseva’s feature debut “#Blue_Whale,” Jonathan Rhys Meyers-starrer “Yakuza Princes” from filmmaker Vicente Amorim,...
- 6/23/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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