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Manufacturing Ignorance (2020)
Directed by Franck Cuveillier, Pascal Vasselin
Documentary · 1h 37m
Tobacco, climate change, pesticides,... Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and shared. And yet it appears to be increasingly challenged. It is no longer surprising to see private corporations put strategies in place to confuse the public debate and paralyze political decision-making. Overwhelmed by excess of information, how can we, as citizens, sort out fact from fiction? One by one, this film dismantles the workings of this clever manoeuvre that aims to turn science against itself. Thanks to declassified archives, graphic animations and testimonies from experts, lobbyists and politicians, this investigation plunges us into the science of doubt. Along with a team of experts (philosophers, economists, cognitive scientists, political men, or even agnotologists), we explore concrete examples of doubt making and try to understand the whole process and the issues behind it.
Cast
Fani Hatjina
Herself
Matthias Groß
Himself
Linsey McGoey
Herself
Naomi Oreskes
Herself
Stéphane Foucart
Himself
Stanton A. Glantz
Himself
Yves Gingras
Himself
Stephan Lewandowsky
Himself
Marcel Goldberg
Himself
Carlos Sonnenschein
Himself
Crew
- Director
- Franck Cuveillier, Pascal Vasselin
- Writer
- Pascal Vasselin, Franck Cuveillier
- Director of Photography
- Pascal Vasselin
- Original Music Composer
- Julien Jaouen
- Editor
- Guillaume Quignard
- Producer
- Gaëlle Guyader
Details
- Original title
- La Fabrique de l'ignorance
- Release date
- 2020-11-23
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German, Greek
- Countries
- Belgium, France, Switzerland
- Production
- ZED, ARTE, France Télévisions, RTS, AMC Networks International Iberia, RTBF, Télé-Québec