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About Peter Joseph
Peter Joseph is a filmmaker, author and activist. His most recent release is the live action film InterReflections (Oct 6th 2020.) His 4th feature film, Zeitgeist Requiem, is pending online release, set for early 2025.
Historical projects include the award-winning “Zeitgeist Film Series”, three of which were featured on Netflix streaming; the Culture in Decline web series and 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 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 about 30 lectures on the subject of social sustainability since 2009, including in the UK, Canada, Germany, America, Brazil & Israel. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference [Lecture Here].
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.
Revolution Now! Podcast
Revolution Now! is a podcast hosted by author and filmmaker Peter Joseph. The show highlights the urgent challenges facing civilization today. Using a “structuralist” approach, Joseph draws from his 2017 book, The New Human Rights Movement, which serves as a framework for the podcast. The book explores topics like bigotry, ecological decline, and the systemic public health crisis driven by socioeconomic inequality. Unlike other programs addressing social issues, Revolution Now! aims to uncover the deeper, underlying causes of these problems, offering a broader perspective on our social struggles, along with solutions based on system science.
Lectures
Peter Joseph has given dozens of lectures on socioeconomic theory and activism over the past 17 years in numerous countries. His most recent, thorough lecture, covering the core principles of his research, is perhaps best embraced in his Nov. 8th, 2017 talk at the University of Santa Barbara.
The New Human Rights Movement is Peter Joseph’s most thorough treatment to date on the illness of modern society and how to change it.
“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
“This book is a fascinating read, and a vitally important one for anyone who is tired of the status quo, seeks to understand why it is so entrenched, and wants to do something about it.”
-Robert Fantina, New York Journal of books
Zeitgeist Film Series
With over 30 awards, 500 million views and translated into 70+ languages, the Zeitgeist Film Series continues with its pending fourth installment, “Zeitgeist Requiem.”
Watch these work on various outlets, including Google Play, iTunes and via DVD. Learn more.
InterReflections, 2020
InterReflections is an experimental social commentary film. Structurally, it is a mixed-genre work, combining three interwoven timelines with elements of documentary, horror, science fiction satire, and more. Inspired by the avant-garde tradition of impressionistic abstraction and challenging convention, this 2-hour and 45-minute film is grounded in a distinct sociological perspective focused on public health and human well-being.
Based on the writer/director’s best-selling 2017 book, The New Human Rights Movement, InterReflections is a fantasy that extends the book’s academic content into a more creative form. Each of the three timeline layers serves both a content and aesthetic function. Watch Trailer
Culture In Decline, TV/Web Series
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
Started in 2009, The Zeitgeist Movement is a grassroots sustainability organization seeking economic change. Since then the movement has conducted thousands of public awareness events worldwide and was once deemed the largest grassroots movement in the world.
View our YouTube channel for educational media & read the book.
We are all part of The Zeitgeist Movement whether we like it or not. It’s up to us to engineer change.
Articles and Commentary
Substack: Analytical commentary on various social issues.
Medium: Transcripts of lectures & podcasts.
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.
