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Synopsis:
InterReflections is an experimental social commentary film. Structurally, it is a mixed-genre work, combining three interwoven timelines with elements of documentary, horror, science fiction satire, and more. Inspired by the avant-garde tradition of impressionistic abstraction and challenging convention, this 2-hour and 45-minute film is grounded in a distinct sociological perspective focused on public health and human well-being.
Based on the writer/director’s best-selling 2017 book, The New Human Rights Movement, InterReflections is a fantasy that extends the book’s academic content into a more creative form. Each of the three timeline layers serves both a content and aesthetic function.
The first timeline, set in contemporary times, follows our female lead in a silent film-style journey as she navigates the darkness of the modern day. After being fired from her job, she awakens to a new day in New York City and sets out to find another job. Her journey transforms her, culminating in a resolution of her identity when all three timeline characters come together.
The second timeline is set 40 years in the future when, as predicted by many scientists today, the ecological, climate, and social crises of inequality have reached a critical point. In this central timeline, our satirical protagonist, John Taylor, the leader of a pro-revolution counter-culture group named Concordia, is captured by the Global Security Agency (GSA). This leads to a debate with his old colleague and nemesis, Simon Devoe, the head of the GSA, who encourages John to join his team to avoid legal punishment for his “terrorist” actions.
The third timeline takes place 100 years from now, featuring four academics discussing how things used to be in the early 21st century (today). This layer is the most liberally executed in terms of the film’s relationship to the book and serves not only a structural and stylistic role but also as the educational foundation that connects the other timelines.
Overall, stripped of its artistic specifics, the work can be seen as classic edutainment—a kind of abstract “PBS special” that aims to express contemporary social issues in an unorthodox way.
About Director, Peter Joseph:
Peter Joseph is an American musician, filmmaker, author and activist. His most recent media work is the live action film InterReflections, to be released on Oct 6th 2020. Other notable credits included the award-winning “Zeitgeist Film Series”, the Culture in Decline web series and his book The New Human Rights Movement, published in 2017 by BenBella books. He is also host of the podcast Revolution Now! started in 2020.
In 2009, he founded “The Zeitgeist Movement”, a global, nonprofit sustainability advocacy group and has been on the Advisory Board/Steering Committee for “Project-Peace on Earth“ since 2013. He also founded and curates the Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival for the arts and periodically works with UN working groups including UNFUCA and The World Academy.
Joseph has given talks around the world, including the UK, Canada, Germany, America, Brazil & Israel. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference [Lecture Here] and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice, The Huffington Post, The Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, The Examiner and many other media outlets. He has participated in multiple TEDx Events, has worked with The Global Summit and is also a frequent social critic on the news network Russia Today. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture, Watching The Hawks, BoomBust, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, The David Pakman show, Christopher Ryans “Tangentially Speaking” podcast, Telesur’s Empire Files with Abby Martin, The Jimmy Dore Show and others.
In 2013, Peter Joseph was hired to direct the Official Music Video “God is Dead?” by Rock Hall of Fame artist Black Sabbath. The nearly 9 min. video was composed of segments from The Zeitgeist Film Series, at Ozzy Osborne’s and the band’s request.
As a classical musician, predating his film and activist work, in 2002, Joseph released an album of J.S. Bach transcriptions for Marimba entitled “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue”. This album has now been re-released and can be listened to free online. The title track composition “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue”, originally for harpsichord, is the only known recorded arrangement of the famous work for solo marimba.
Joseph’s work is produced, published and (mostly) distributed directly through his company, Gentle Machine Productions LLC..