In the age of social media, this eye-opening documentary examines the rising phenomenon of “fake news” in the U.S. and the impact that disinformation, conspiracy theories and false news stories have on the average citizen. The film focuses on several high-profile made-up news stories in recent years with real world consequences, including the infamous “Pizzagate” case, the disinformation campaigns that influenced the 2016 presidential election, the Jade Helm conspiracy, and others. Drawing from exclusive verite access and interviews with a variety of experts, as well as purveyors and targets of misinformation, the documentary sheds light on how post-truth culture has become an increasingly dangerous part of the global information environment.

一个昆虫学家（冈田英次 饰）在沙漠做野外考察，却不慎错过归程班车，被困在一个沙漠中的小村子里。他落脚在一个寡妇（岸田今日子 饰）家，被招待之后发现通往外界的路已经被封住。他慢慢观察村子的各种古怪，比如全部村民每到夜晚都要出动铲沙，以免居住的房屋被沙子埋掉，所有的水都受到管制，实行配给制使用等。收留他的寡妇开始用身体诱惑他，试图和他重组一个家庭，他几次三番尝试逃走都以失败告终，只好表面上虚与委蛇，进入村子定期劳动、享受配给的生活模式，但他内心始终在做逃走的打算。一日，寡妇突发急病，被医生诊断为意外怀孕，大家手忙脚乱带她去送医，男人终于有了千载难逢的逃走机会……

Directed and edited by Esfir Shub. A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of World War I until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty comprises hundreds of films that Esfir Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar’s own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family in opulent ballrooms, regal processions, and garden tea parties with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. One of the great pleasures of this Vertov retrospective is rediscovering the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage, collaborating with Sergei Eisenstein on the shooting scripts of Strike and Potemkin. (from moma.org)

当新闻中传出武汉爆发新冠疫情的第一批报道时，在国内其他地方，张秀华——正遭受着另一种疾病的折磨并为她自己的生命而战。医生们可能已经放弃了她，但是她的孩子和孙子们却没有，他们正在尽一切可能让她和他们在一起多呆一会儿。这部作品以克制的黑白画面观察这个家庭、他们与母亲的处境、疫情造成的后果以及彼此之间的斗争。自尊心和对立的世界观最终使兄妹之间的关系变得紧张——但他们仍然没有从母亲那边让步。对于家庭内部情况的呈现仍然是最重要的不分，但观众能不断地从新冠引发的危机和由此产生的限制中捕捉一些瞬间。通过这种方式，该片巧妙地将一场私人家庭危机与一场全球性紧急事件交织在一起，并在微观和宏观层面显示了它们对人类生活的相互影响。