alex:g in Birmingham on 10/11/15
alex:g
Since his year producing and presenting Edge Media TV’s On The Edge series (2011-2012, as seen on Sky channel 200), alex:g created and fronted Doomwatch – an alternative current affairs format which, since 2013, has been a “radio show with pictures” and has clocked up over 50 editions onwww.peterborough.fmand www.ukcolumn.org/live. He is now turning to community-based Local TV, as Station Director of Peterborough’s Hereward Television.
Aside from presenting TV and film-based lectures around the country, alex:g is now a published author, with the fictional novel Mindful, which extrapolates what would have to happen in the UK for what we all most want from our political system to come into being. Set just after the last General Election (where the novel predicted a Conservative victory), the book also postulates massive vote rigging, and those in the shadows doing everything they can to stop major changes in our society.
alex:g continues to be the editor of the official Cult TV website, where extraordinary fictional television from the past and present is celebrated.
Presentation: Politics and Propaganda in Screen Fiction
Considering how politics has been covered in fictional versions of our world, alex:g also takes a look at the last General Election, and demonstrates how the vote was rigged.
He asks where, on screen, is the line drawn between wishful thinking and blatant propaganda? What influence do dystopian and utopian visions of what might be around the corner have on voter decisions? How much of what we are shown is a deliberate attempt to shore up the status quo, giving us the impression that there is no viable alternative to the corrupt and fatally flawed systems and players which we are forced to endure?
He analyses the media barrage of Jeremy Corbyn, showing this sort of thing is nothing new, with his emergence anticipated decades ago. Why is it seen as perfectly fine to vote for the lesser of two (or three/four/five) evils?
Is everything we see on film and TV just ‘predictive programming’ – a theory which proposes that mainstream media sources are deliberately seeded with subtle clues to future social, political, or technological changes, to prepare us for what’s coming? Join alex:g for a disturbing – but fun – guide to where facts meet fiction.
alex:g
Freelance Writer/Presenter/Producer
CEO, Cult TV Productions (www.cult.tv)
57 episodes of DOOMWATCH® so far – more to come – check out www.doomwatch.com
