Film Tremors Shaking in Seaside
Film Tremors Shaking in Seaside
Thursday, January 13, 2011
From its innocuous online release on June 18, 2007, the formerly uncredited and mysterious documentary film Zeitgeist has garnered a sustained tidal-wave of buzz, including, according to its website, 100 million views, two sequels and a decentralized group called The Zeitgeist Movement, or TZM (www.zmmonterey.groupsite.com).
That movement, founded by the filmmaker Peter Joseph, counts nearly 500,000 members across the globe. Pacific Grove’s Parker Howell formed a Monterey chapter last November and draws parallels to a line in the film Fight Club: “It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue; [Peter Joseph] just gave it a name.”
The third film, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, debuts at 7pm at Alternative Café in Seaside this Saturday, part of a 60-country, 20-language simultaneous screening event.
Created by Joseph, the first film attempts to deconstruct the story of Christ in terms of astrological, agrarian and pagan symbolism. It also examines the events of 9/11 through a conspiratorial theory.
Criticism has been vociferous: a “perversion of genuine issues and debates” (Irish Times) and a “driven, if uneven, piece of propaganda” (Globe and Mail). But that hasn’t stopped the momentum.
“If you show people the material,” Howell says, “they want to know more about it.”
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