At a time when powerlessness and resignation carry the day, Noam Chomsky's work is a radical antidote for all those who want to put an end to the factory of powerlessness and its intellectual media star watchdogs. Theoretician of language, born in Philadelphia in 1928, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics with the "generative grammar." But Chomsky is also a political analyst involved in all political struggles for decades. His clear analysis and rational ideological mechanisms of our societies is a crucial resource for critical thinking today.
Writing
Chomsky's surgical dismantling of media narratives.
Direction
Mermet and Azam keep the intellectual dynamism cinematic.
Director
Olivier Azam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' thesis, developed with Edward Herman, became foundational to modern media criticism and anticipated our algorithmic attention economy by decades.
The directors specifically chose to film Chomsky in his seventies, capturing him at peak accessibility—his linguistic theories already canonized, his political fire undimmed.
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