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...early minutes of New Years Day, at the turn of the millennium, while most New Yorkers were partying or panicking about Y2K and its accompanying Armageddon, 150 coked-out people in orange jumpsuits came tumbling out of a Manhattan warehouse, breathing fresh air for the first time in months. These individuals were living their last hours under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker—complete with shooting range, communal showers, and bedroom cubicles. Behind this “social experiment”—entitled “Quiet: We Live in Public?...
...running to join them as fast as people had been running to join the bunker,” Timoner recalls. “I’m glad we didn’t put the movie out back then.” As the first decade of the new millennium draws to a close, Harris’ experiments as captured in “We Live in Public” force the audience to pause and consider the bluescreen cubicles we now occupy...
...Nearly a millennium later, that language still lingers, spoken by ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority who make up the majority population in the Chinese frontier region of Xinjiang. Kashgar, a city of 3.4 million surrounded by mountains and desert, is at Xinjiang's westernmost tip, closer to Baghdad than to Beijing. And while its history is rich - most agree at least 2,000 years old - many Uighurs in Kashgar see their culture and heritage as under attack by the Chinese government. In the latest move, authorities have started to demolish Kashgar's old town - an atmospheric, mud-brick maze...
There's a series called I Love the New Millennium, but the decade isn't over yet. Do we really need a TV show that helps us remember 2005? You're living in a bizarro universe where time folds back on itself and nostalgia is something you reminisce about before it even happens. In fact, we're shooting I Love the 2020s right...
...economy, energy, environment, foreign affairs, health, labor, terrorism and trade tend to get discussed. And these discussions, in turn, get written about in the press, sparking conversation among like-minded people around the world. Look past those quintessential G-8 buzzwords like "consultation," "global social integration," and "millennium development goals" and you can see that, in recent years, the summit has given eventual rise to debt forgiveness for poor countries, a significant aid package for Africa and a genuine attempt to tackle climate change...