The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
UBC (Vancouver)
Tuesday October 14, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Norm Theatre
Adam Curtis/2007
As part of a conference focused on the 50th anniversary of Isaiah Berlin's 'Two Concepts of Liberty' essay, this film will be screened for critical review. The conference will be a major academic event at UBC, with scholars coming from around the world to present their thoughts on both Berlin's historical significance and the ideal of freedom more generally.
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares.
The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."
