Video Archive

This video visualization from Bloomberg does a great job explaining the background of the Euro Area, the origins of how countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland accumulated such burdensome debt, the issue of major cultural differences within Europe, and the difficulties of being bound by a monetary union with no unified fiscal policy.

The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies. More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets ever more scarce.

The Age of Stupid, makes a compelling case for how things are not being done to mitigate climate disruption, and how things are not being done to support the renewable energy sector, that can be seen in toto as being nothing other than stupid. Pete Postlethwaite stars in the film. The film is set in 2055, where Pete’s character does a retrospective looking back on our current period of time to investigate what went wrong to cause climate disruption, which has by then caused the veritable extinction of humans. He does this by using: film clips of real events that are happening in our contemporary times that look at consumerism and energy use; through the experiences of several people who live in different countries; and commentary.

Released in 1990, Jennie Livingston's documentary dives into the gay ball culture of Harlem, New York, in the late 1980s, getting up close and personal with a number of the scene's key individuals (all of whom have since passed away), who hold forth on their lives and art with the otherworldly self-possession of superstars, against a backdrop of intersected communities (poor, queer, and trans) ravaged by a raging AIDS crisis and eight years of pernicious Reagan-era neglect. The film inspired an entire generation across lifestyles, influenced brand globally as well as the entertainment world in ways that were unexpected at the time.

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

Can you imagine our world in 2050? By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. In the future world demographic changes will certainly be dramatic. Rockefeller University mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says it's likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas of the earth, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today.

What happens when two powerful forces collide? Money and emotion result in behaviours that are not easily explained or rational. This documentary explores studies conducted by a group of scientists called behavioral economists reveal the answer. They have found that the human mind behaves in an irrational, self-interest, selfish manner when it comes to matters around money and wealth and discredits Economics as a theory which would result in rational behaviour.

Economist Yannis Varoufakis, a former finance minister for Greece, explains his quarrel with capitalism, which, he contends, is consuming and destroying democracy. The self-professed “libertarian Marxist” presents a controversial argument to reunite the increasingly disparate realms of politics and economics. Branddibble.com believes Varoufakis’s impassioned lecture will ignite animated debates among economists and politicians.