VPRO Backlight

E-stonia - A startup country

12 juni 2015

In the very north-east of Europe, on the border of Russia, lies the small country of Estonia. Per capita, Estonia has the most start-ups; internet access is considered a human right and all Estonians have free wifi.
The new wisdom of Ricardo Semler

12 juni 2015

We are smarter than ever, but have we also grown wiser? According to Ricardo Semler, the Brazilian top entrepreneur and philosopher who became immensely rich by making his employees happy, our economy has gone completely off the rails and capitalism has failed to create equality anywhere, ever.
Mobile Gold

12 juni 2015

Our waste is worth money. Recovering it has started up a new global industry worth billions. It is called Urban Mining and it appears to be the solution for many of our environmental problems and our energy needs. And it is hot.
Digital Food

12 juni 2015

Modern food production is largely dependent on fossil fuels. Now that we are beginning to reach the end of them, the main question remains: How will we feed a global population of 9 billion people in 2050?
Access to Africa

12 juni 2015

The urge of technological giants to connect everyone and everything literally has no limits. Africa is joining the traffic on the digital highway.
Cybertopia

25 januari 2015

What is the vision of cyber-utopists in Silicon Valley? They are responsible for a revolution that shapes our lives on all levels. A portrait from Cybertopia.
Changemakers

18 januari 2015

The rockstar of this time writes intellectual books. French enonomist Thomas Piketty and Canadian social activist Naomi Klein travel around the world as super stars to spread their ideas.
Digital Amnesia

7 september 2014

This episode can only be watched outside The Netherlands Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable.
Wall Street Code

4 november 2013

A thriller about a genius algorithm builder who dared to stand up against Wall Street From the makers of the much-praised Quants: the Alchemists of Wall Street and Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box. Now the long-awaited final episode of a trilogy in search of the winners and losers of the tech revolution on Wall Street. Could mankind lose control of this increasingly complex system?
The Tax Free Tour

25 maart 2013

"Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman ('Quants' & 'Money & Speed'), takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally.
Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

20 maart 2013

Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box is a thriller based on actual events that takes you to the heart of our automated world. Based on interviews with those directly involved and data visualizations up to the millisecond, it reconstructs the flash crash of May 6th 2010: the fastest and deepest U.S. stock market plunge ever.
The Cleantech Future

20 maart 2013

What if we could live in a clean world? A world in which energy would be 100% renewable, water no longer polluted, transportation truly green and production methods clean and regenerative? There will be such a world. In this documentary VPRO Backlight explores the unprecedented possibilities of a new industrial revolution: Cleantech.
The Food Speculator

20 maart 2013

Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people's lives.
Ten years of Backlight (Tegenlicht) in a globalising world

27 november 2012

A group of international Erasmus Mundus students visited Backlight in Hilversum to see how changing views on globalisation have been visualised in our documentaries in the past ten years.
Webspecial: Rebecca MacKinnon

25 mei 2012

In her ongoing struggle to democratize the Internet Rebecca MacKinnon has earned her stripes. As a former CNN Bureau Chief and current director of Global Voices, she has undertaken various efforts to lift the worlds Internet users from virtual serfdom to citizenship. In this interview, MacKinnon talks to us about the importance of citizen media, internet surveillance in China and Russia and the implications of new laws that may restrict Internet freedom.
Goldman Sachs: the interview

18 februari 2012

Backlight</i> recorded a telephone interview with Goldman Sachs PR chief Lucas van Praag. It caught the attention of the outside world - more specifically, the New York Times.

Holland Gets Talent

10 november 2011

Tegenlicht follows two young entrepreneurs to Shanghai where they have spotted a gap in the market and started an agency to select highly promising students in Shanghai for a research position in the Netherlands.

Aftermath of a crisis

19 september 2011

Shortly after the beginning of the financial crisis of 2008 sociologist Manuel Castells gathered a small group of international topintellectuals to ponder the crisis. While the crisis expanded, Castells named his group 'The Aftermath Network', a reference to the new world which according to him will emerge from the ashes of the crisis.

California Dreaming

8 november 2010

California is a strong brand, the state of new beginnings, dreams and movie stars, of surfers and a wonderful climate. But the Golden State is bankrupt and the city of Los Angeles is running out of cash. Public services are being cut and unemployment keeps rising. At the same time, optimism, entrepreneurship and the belief in the power of America are stronger than ever.

Tony Judt's Last Will

11 oktober 2010

On August 6 2010 Tony Judt passed away at 62 due to the complications of the neuro-muscular disease ALS. Judt was a historian specializing in post-war Europe. But above all he was a great thinker about the political landscape we inhabit. His last will was the lecture 'What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy', in the fall of 2009 in New York.

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VPRO Backlight

E-stonia - A startup country

The new wisdom of Ricardo Semler

Mobile Gold

Digital Food

Access to Africa

Cybertopia

Changemakers

Digital Amnesia

Wall Street Code

The Tax Free Tour

Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box

The Cleantech Future

The Food Speculator

Ten years of Backlight (Tegenlicht) in a globalising world

Webspecial: Rebecca MacKinnon

Goldman Sachs: the interview

Holland Gets Talent

Aftermath of a crisis

California Dreaming

Tony Judt's Last Will