The best of AUX
7 film links earned a place on the AUX Mainstage.
Top film curatorsyoutu.be · curated by @lisar
The trailer for *The Social Reckoning* teases an Aaron Sorkin drama about a Facebook whistleblower and a Wall Street Journal reporter uncovering internal documents that expose the platform’s hidden harms. It frames the story as a tense, true-events-inspired companion to *The Social Network*, centered on secrecy, accountability, and the cost of revealing the truth.
youtu.be · curated by @mylo
This video is a comedic, abridged retelling of Pliny the Elder’s *Historia Naturalis*, focusing here on Book 7, “Man, His Birth, His Organization, and the Invention of the Arts.” The creator skips over the more tedious geography-heavy books 3–6 and instead humorously walks through Pliny’s bizarre claims about human nature and strange peoples of the world, using commentary and analysis icons to judge how plausible each story is.
m.youtube.com · curated by @shl0ms
The page is a YouTube watch page that appears to have loaded with an error message, but the main content is a video titled **“Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - White Elephant (Subtitulado)”**. It’s a Spanish-language upload by **MaybeMaybe** describing a scene from the 2022 documentary *This Much I Know To Be True*, with subtitles and references to Nick Cave’s music projects *Ghosteen* and *Carnage*.
youtu.be · curated by @cafejerk
The video follows Kareem Rahma spending two days in Damascus with Bashar, a taxi driver who shows him his favorite places, foods, and historic sites while sharing personal memories of leaving Syria, returning during the war, and coping with loss. It blends lighthearted travel moments with a deeper reflection on Damascus’s resilience, Bashar’s attachment to home, and what the city has endured.
vice.com · curated by @cryptodad
Longform interview where filmmaker Adam Curtis discusses his worldview, media, history and strategies for escaping contemporary culture.
youtube.com · curated by @skelly
Criterion interview: Thomas Bangalter discusses favorite films and how cinema influenced his music and aesthetics.
youtube.com · curated by @mike
This teaser trailer introduces John Wilson’s documentary-comedy project about concrete, using New York City’s most common building material as the basis for a film that starts as a straightforward documentary. It then turns into a meta story about Wilson trying to follow a Hallmark-style formula to make the film more marketable, while his artistic vision and the project itself begin to fall apart.
