DOCUMENTARY MOVIE: ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025)

Cross-posted with LA and OC Weirdo Music and Art Forum

From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), Orwell is the definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell, with the exclusive cooperation of the Orwell Estate.

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 pm

Venue: The Art Theater Long Beach, 2025 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Note: the theater does NOT have a parking lot. There are some pay lots nearby and there is street parking, but it can be a bit tough. Give yourself time and read the signs.

Tickets: $15.00
https://arttheatre.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/SzxMPmFA9q0LHb3A7hXqXg

Trailer: https://youtu.be/FGMEOdPxpWs?si=7ZUz_ZwPSpzyL0Vw

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past..." wrote Orwell in his novel, 1984.

Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 is a dense, urgent, and unapologetically blunt documentary that offers a chillingly relevant examination of totalitarianism's enduring appeal and the societal conditions that enable it.

Today, the "newspeak" of authoritarian rule is alive and well and in unexpected places, from the rise of AI Chatbot to the Russian propaganda machine, from the marketing webs of commercial metaverses to the political banning of books in the Southern United States

Peck's "Orwell" will use George Orwell's life, work and legacy as a maverick iconoclastic writer to jam the signals of the algorithms gone rogue which, in the name of personal freedom, threaten to close our minds to a greater possibility.