• Director(s):

    PAOLI (STEPHANE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, GENERALE DE PRODUCTION (LA)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2008

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Reflections on speed, with one of its foremost theorists Paul Virilio.

Ubiquity was once a dream, now Internet has made it possible. The speed at which our planet has gone online has thrown all aspects of our daily lives into question, whether economic, cultural or political. Through his reflections and writings, Paul Virilio has shown that contemporary History is the daughter of speed. Can we not consider the Y2K bug as a preamble to his prophecy of the Integral Accident? The desynchronisation between human time and technological time is underway for the first time in the history of humanity. Does being here and there at the same time make us mutants?
In 90 minutes, this film examines our era in the light of Paul Virilio's thoughts. It shows, with supporting examples, that politics, economics and information are now subjected to the dictatorship of speed. Major contemporary experts and informed observers like Jérémy Rifkin, Walter Bender, Mohammad Yunus, Hubert Védrine, Jacques Attali, Jean Nouvel and Enki Bilal support or counteract Paul Virilio's line of reasoning.