Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

Born: December 14, 1938
in Rockford, Illinois, USA

Movies for Stewart Brand...

We Are As Gods
Title: We Are As Gods
Character: Himself
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” This is the audacious opening line of the Whole Earth Catalog, a compendium of wonderful tools compiled by counterculture legend Stewart Brand. A psychedelic experimenter, cyberspace pioneer, and environmentalist, he is now urging humanity to use our god-like powers to reframe our relationship with time and life itself. Today, Stewart is using biotech to resurrect extinct species. He and a team of scientists travel to Siberia to collect ancient DNA in an effort to make a hybrid Woolly Mammoth. Former allies in the environmental movement vow to stand in his way, but Stewart forges ahead in his life-long mission to conserve the whole earth.
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Pandora's Promise
Title: Pandora's Promise
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2013
Type: Movie
The atomic bomb, the specter of a global nuclear holocaust, and disasters like Fukushima have made nuclear energy synonymous with the darkest nightmares of the modern world. But what if everyone has nuclear power wrong? What if people knew that there are reactors that are self-sustaining and fully controllable and ones that require no waste disposal? What if nuclear power is the only energy source that has the ability to stop climate change?
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Title: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Character: Self
Released: May 23, 2011
Type: TV
We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
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An Ecology of Mind
Title: An Ecology of Mind
Character: Himself
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.' Seen through the relationship between father and daughter, this documentary is an invitation into 'systems thinking' and interrelationships in the natural world. 'Looking at what holds systems together is a radical step toward sewing the world back together, from the inside.'
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The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction
Title: The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Is the notion of a real Matrix plausible? An investigation of the technologies that inspire the metaphor of the Matrix trilogy.
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2003
Type: Movie
More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
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Title: How Buildings Learn
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: July 10, 1997
Type: TV
Based on his book, American writer Stewart Brand takes a look at the life history of buildings - how they're shaped by their architects, and how they're further shaped by their inhabitants.
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Silicon Valley Story
Title: Silicon Valley Story
Character: Bruttner
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A playful story about the microcircuitry of love.
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Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
Title: Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"