System Error

Award winning feature documentary with Tim Jackson, investigating the paradigm of ‘economic growth’
February 2019

‘Growing Pains’ (video above) is the title for a short edit of the film (47min). If the video doesn’t load, please see the Al Jazeera website.

Synopsis

Why are we so obsessed with economic growth, knowing that it has devastating effects on our finite planet (and ultimately us)? SYSTEM ERROR looks for answers to this principal contradiction of our time and considers global capitalism from the perspective of those who run it. In this manner, the film not only makes the absurdity of our growth-centered system uncomfortably perceptible, but also strikingly questions the seemingly irrefutable rules of the game within a bigger context.

The film is directed by award-winning director Florian Opitz (“Speed—In Search of Lost Time” and “The Big Sellout”). For details, please see the Port-au-Prince’s website.

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