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Peter Joseph is an American musician, filmmaker, author and activist. His most recent work is the live action film InterReflections, released on Oct 6th 2020. Other projects include the award-winning “Zeitgeist Film Series”, the Culture in Decline web series (and “Yelling at the Wind” shorts adaptation) and notably his book The New Human Rights Movement, published in 2017 by BenBella books. He currently hosts the Revolution Now! Podcast, which started in 2020.

In 2013, Joseph was hired to direct the Official Music Video “God is Dead?” by Rock Hall of Fame artist Black Sabbath. The nearly 9 min. video was composed of segments from The Zeitgeist Film Series, at Ozzy Osborne’s and the band’s request. In 2022 UDiscoverMusic deemed the work as one of “The 12 Best Heavy Metal Music Videos Of All Time.”

In 2009, he founded “The Zeitgeist Movement”, a global, nonprofit sustainability advocacy group and has been on the Advisory Board/Steering Committee for “Project-Peace on Earth“ since 2013. He also founded and curates the Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival for the arts and periodically works with UNFUCA and The World Academy. He is published in the Cadmus Journal and is part of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Joseph has given talks around the world, including the UK, Canada, Germany, America, Brazil & Israel. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference [Lecture Here] and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice, The Huffington Post, The Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, The Examiner and many other media outlets. He has participated in multiple TEDx Events, has worked with The Global Summit and has been a frequent critic on the news network Russia Today. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture, Watching The Hawks, BoomBust, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, The David Pakman show, Christopher Ryans “Tangentially Speaking” podcast, Telesur’s Empire Files with Abby Martin, The Jimmy Dore Show, the Marianne Williamson's podcast and others.

As a classical musician, predating his film and activist work, in 2002, Joseph released an album of J.S. Bach transcriptions for Marimba entitled “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue”. This album has now been re-released and can be listened to free online. Joseph’s work is produced, published and (mostly) distributed directly through his company, Gentle Machine Productions LLC.

"Peter Joseph is one of the great visionaries of our time. If there's a beautiful future—and I think there will be—then his fingerprints will be all over it."
—Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Since 9/11, security took over and retired human rights into a small closet. We need to get back to the issue of rights for all. Hopefully this important work will draw us closer to that reality and promise. Without economic realignment with nature to secure our habitat, along with conquering the sociological roots of fragmentation and bigotry, the human family is in peril."
—Jack Healey, Head of Human Rights Action Center

"One of this generation's greatest visionaries delivers a startling exposé about the violent oppression that defines our economic order, while issuing an urgent call for global activism to unite to change it. Amidst a deepening crisis of capitalism and inequality, coupled with an intensifying assault by the Empire's elite, The New Human Rights Movement provides a crucial roadmap for the movement toward the next system."
–Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files

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Revolution Now! Podcast

Revolution Now! is podcast hosted by author/filmmaker Peter Joseph. The purpose of the show is to highlight the urgency of what civilization faces today. In what could also be called a “structuralist” approach, Joseph’s 2017 book The New Human Rights Movement serves as a kind of framework. In this book, which is the inspiration for the podcast, the subjects of bigotry, ecological decline and the systemic public health crisis of socioeconomic inequality are addressed. However, in contrast to other programs dealing with social issues, the goal is to realize a bigger picture, seeking to uncover the deepest roots of our social woes.

InterReflections

Many years in the making, the 2 hr 45 min tour de force film is now live in many outlets and languages.

Culture In Decline’s “Yelling at the Wind”

Started in 2013, Culture in Decline is a public access parody show, taking on serious social issues in a punk rock way. Watch the first season on TUBI or get via DVD. In 2023, the docu-style format was reintroduced as a sub-series of shorts, titled “Yelling at the Wind.”

The Zeitgeist Movement

12 years going to date, The Zeitgeist Movement is a grassroots sustainability organization seeking economic change. View our YouTube channel for vast educational media or read the book. Join the Movement and help rebuild our failing world.

The Zeitgeist Film Series

With over 30 awards, 250 million views and translated into 70+ languages, the Zeitgeist film phenomenon has been a unique ride. Watch The Trilogy on various outlets, including Google Play, iTunes and via DVD.

Commentary Articles on Substack

My personal commentary articles on culture and socioeconomic issues are published on Medium every couple weeks.

Zeitgeist Media Festival! (2011-2016)

Currently on hiatus, The Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival has been a powerful live expression of human potential, using the arts as a means for inspiring change. There is every interest to bring it back in the near future.