A Substack post listing the author's film recommendations, with commentary and links to movies to watch.

Doomscroll is now available in audio form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere else. If you’ve spent a lot of time on the internet, there is a high probability that your brain has been hijacked by a bunch of bad memes that you have mistaken for actual politics. If this applies to you or a friend, follow the work of Jen Pan — a forthcoming guest on Doomscroll.When I first began this project, I did a weekly Twitch stream for the duration of a college class, usually about three hours. On these streams, I would review materials from my syllabus that I taught at universities such as the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in NYC. I’ve given talks at MoMA, UPenn and many others.Every six weeks or so, we would take a break from the usual lecture format and watch a film on the Twitch stream. For this week’s newsletter, I’ve compiled a list of movies and documentaries from my live streams and syllabi as well as many other new picks. Most of the these are available for free on various streaming services or cheap to rent. I’ve included a link for each in the descriptions:If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011), Marshall Curry & Sam CullmanThe ELF was responsible for large-scale acts of property destruction in the late 1990s as a radical form of environmentalist action. They would sabotage logging operations, commit arson to buildings, or burn down entire dealerships of SUVs. Between 1997 and 2009, ELF members caused over 40 million dollars of damage in the United States. A decade later, the film follows their story, legal battles and internal conflicts with unbelievable access and first-person accounts. As the climate crisis accelerates, some have begun to reevaluate the actions of this fringe group.Daz Netz (2003), Lutz DammbeckThe Net (translated to English) may be the most bonkers art documentary film of all time. Dammbeck weaves an incredible mesh of radical ideas, leading from the hippie movement, to MK ultra, to the earl