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This isn’t exactly new news but reading through the comments of the most recent Cinecast, fellow contributor Rot brought up the fact that Michael Winterbottom is working on a documentary adaptation of Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine”.

Reading that comment, I was reminded of a short film tie-in to the book directed by Jonás Cuarón which came online shortly after the book was released. Turns out that after finishing the book, Klein sent it to Alfonso Cuarón because “I adore his films and felt that the future he created for Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster zones. I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket”. Instead of just giving her a quote, Cuarón pulled together a team of individuals to make the short film The Shock Doctrine.

It’s a powerful short film which makes excellent use of stock footage accompanied by narration which, I assume, is done by Klein herself. This is a great introduction to the book and the ideas Klein is working with but I’m very interested to see what Winterbottom will come up with for a full length documentary. Should be interesting.

Until then, be sure to check out the short which I’ve tucked under the seat.