Paradigma

Original Title: Paradigma

Documentary | 120' | 2024 (Completed)

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Director:	Jozef Devillé, Pablo Eekman
Producer:	Jurgen Buedts

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A cinematic essay that uses archive footage to reveal that nothing is real and everything is permitted, as long as it is justified by the stories in our heads.

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Using only archive footage, Paradigma reveals that the problems we’re facing today are anything but recent. Our economy, the many consequences of climate change, distrust of democracy and even fake news have been around for decades. Paradigma is a cinematic essay showing why we fail as a collective to fundamentally tackle all of these challenges, and appear to be stuck in a loop. Our societies are held together by the stories we tell. However, these stories have the potential to evolve into habits and traditions which, fortified over millennia, become inescapable. The unconscious paradigms shaping our daily actions can only be adjusted to meet our needs if we consciously recognise and acknowledge them for what they are.