The illusionists a film about the globalization of beauty
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English

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Producer, Director and Writer, Elena Rossini ; Executive Producer, Erika Franchini ; Original Music, Pierre-Marie Maulini ; Music Executive Producer, Olivier Linglet ; Editing and Motion Graphics, Elena Rossini ; Main Supervising Editor, Laura Minnear ; Consulting Editor, Louis Goldschmidt ; Sound Design and Mix, Ludovic Jokiel (AOC Production) ; Assistant Sound Design, Maxime Singer (AOC Production) ; Associate Producers, Erika Franchini and Garrett Zevgetis ; Narrator, Peter Coyote; Additional Writing, Laura Miner ; DP/Camera Operator, Elena Rossini ; Artistic Collaborators, Erika Franchini and Olivier Ducray.

Originally produced by Media Education Foundation (MEF) in 2015.

The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon’s office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo’s Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences. Features Jean Kilbourne, Susie Orbach, Laura Mulvey, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, and other prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Grade 9+

Mode of access: World Wide Web.