
With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain's vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surpris... (Full plot summary below)
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With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain's vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life. Employing a splendidly imaginative combination of animation and archival footage, plus several surprises, Shlain constructs a chronological tour of Western modernization through the work of her late father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon and best-selling author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. With humor and irony, the Shlain family life merges with philosophy to create both a personal portrait and a proposal for ways we can move forward as a civilization. Connected illuminates the beauty and tragedy of human endeavor while boldly championing the importance of personal connectedness for understanding and coping with today's global conditions.
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| Hollywood ReporterJames GreenbergA highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonTiffany Shlain's rangy, autobiographic treatise on technology and modern life has a soul, and bristles with a hunger and intellectual vigor lacking in many modern American films. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA combo documentary, memoir, and probe of technology that offers a creative look at the brave new world of interdependence and collaboration. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerLike Shlain's hand-written diagram in which lines twist and knot while linking various subjects, the film resembles not a coherent thesis but a tangle of semi-related ideas. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe film ultimately works best as a daughter's heartfelt tribute to an enormously devoted and emotionally generous parent. Unfortunately, that's just not enough to, well, connect us to the bigger picture. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoYour heart will go out to Shlain, who clearly adored her father. But other parts of "Connected" may remind you of an Al Gore lecture. |
| New York TimesPaul BrunickThere are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only Connected had a stronger center of gravity. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongPerhaps we're evolving into a race of Da Vincis. I think it's vastly more likely we'll continue to streamline methods for sharing cat videos. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoYour heart will go out to Shlain, who clearly adored her father. But other parts of Connected may remind you of an Al Gore lecture. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderAmbitious but irritating documentary about the Global Village. |
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology