Peter Joseph
{{short description|American filmmaker and activist (born 1979)}}
{{for|the Nigerian recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize|Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph}}
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| birth_place = Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States{{cite web |url=http://peterjoseph.info |title=Peter Joseph, Official Media Archive |publisher=peterjoseph.info |access-date=August 9, 2013}}
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| known_for = The Zeitgeist Movement
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Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist. He is best known for the Zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrated, scored, and produced. He is also the founder of the related Zeitgeist Movement.{{cite news|last1=Donovan|first1=Travis|title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|access-date=June 15, 2015|work=The Huffington Post|date=May 16, 2015}} Other work by Joseph includes the 2017 book The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression.Tanguay, Brian (September 26, 2017). [https://www.independent.com/news/2017/sep/26/peter-josephs-new-human-rights-movement/ Peter Joseph's 'The New Human Rights Movement.'] Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved: August 12, 2018.
Career
Joseph was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1979 and attended the University of North Carolina and The New School.{{cite web |url=http://peterjoseph.info/biography/ |title=Biography – Peter Joseph |website=peterjoseph.info |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629211522/http://peterjoseph.info/biography/ |access-date=October 11, 2020 |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |via=Wayback Machine }}
In 2009, he founded The Zeitgeist Movement, a self-described "sustainability advocacy organization". It was originally started as the "activist arm" of an organization called The Venus Project, launched by Jacque Fresco in 1994. In 2011, the two organizations separated.{{cite news | url=http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3245249-421/hogancamp-marwencol-zeitgeist-dolls-films.html?print=true | title=Art-house films: 'Marwencol,' 'Zeitgeist' | access-date=March 7, 2011 | author=Bill Stamets | date=February 15, 2011 | publisher=Chicago Sun-Times }}
{{cite web|url=http://orlandoweekly.com/news/the-view-from-venus-1.1217175?pgno=6|title=The view from Venus|work=Orlando Weekly|access-date=April 25, 2015|archive-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006130815/http://orlandoweekly.com/news/the-view-from-venus-1.1217175?pgno=6|url-status=dead}} Joseph's work with the movement and the Zeitgeist film trilogy has been the subject of national media attention, including articles in The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, VC Reporter, and TheMarker.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html|work=The New York Times|title=They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present|first=Alan|last=Feuer|date=March 17, 2009|access-date=May 12, 2012}}Rhonda Swan, [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_hidethis=no&p_field_label-0=Author&p_text_label-0=rhonda%20swan&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&s_dispstring=byline(rhonda%20swan)%20AND%20date(04/30/2009%20to%2005/01/2009)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=04/30/2009%20to%2005/01/2009)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no A dream worth having], The Palm Beach Post, May 1, 2009[http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ New world re-order: The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110044/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ |date=October 6, 2014 }}, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter, May 12, 2011
Since 2011, Joseph has supported the Occupy movement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/awaiting-interreflections_b_7628680|title=Awaiting Interreflections : Peter Joseph's Highly Anticipated New Film Series Inches Towards its 2016 Release|last1=Simon|first1=Alex|date=June 20, 2015|website=HuffPost|language=en|access-date=July 30, 2019}}
In 2012, he created the satirical miniseries Culture in Decline, which challenges various contemporary cultural phenomena.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203700/ "Culture in decline" in IMDB][https://www.cultureindecline.com "Culture in decline" Website]
In March 2017, BenBella Books published The New Human Rights Movement, authored by Joseph. Abby Martin discussed his views in the book and generally in an interview on Telesur.{{cite web|title=Abby Martin Discusses the Absurdity of Capitalism with Peter Joseph| date=August 18, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucZ55j07m3s&feature=em-subs_digest |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/ucZ55j07m3s |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |url-status=live|publisher=YouTube|access-date=August 21, 2017}}{{cbignore}}
Filmography
Film
- Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)
- Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
- Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
- InterReflections (2020)
- Zeitgeist: Requiem (2024)
Television
- Culture in Decline (2012)
Music videos
- "God Is Dead?" – Black Sabbath (2013)
Publications
- {{cite book |last1=Murdock |first1=D.M. |last2=Joseph |first2=Peter |title=The Zeitgeist Sourcebook – Part 1: The Greatest Story Ever Told |year=2011 |url=http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeistsourcebook.pdf |access-date=February 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728010710/http://stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeistsourcebook.pdf |archive-date=July 28, 2019 |url-status=dead }}
- The New Human Rights Movement (2017)
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|peterjoseph.info}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100218115545/http://www.whoispeterjoseph.com/ Who Is Peter Joseph?], 2009 documentary by Charles Robinson
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