Harold Crooks is a Canadian-American filmmaker. He began his career as an investigative journalist covering environmental issues in Canada during the 1980s and 90s. His films cover the subjects of

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

and the impact humans have on their environment through technology and capitalism. Most recently he co-directed a documentary with the art writer

Judd Tully Judd Tully is an art critic and journalist who writes about artists and the art market. He has been contributor to BlouinARTINFO, The Washington Post, ARTnews, Flash Art and covered topics such as the potential indictment of museum staff in re ...

about the artist

David Hammons David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten ...

Works

* ''Dirty Business: the Inside Story of the New Garbage Agglomerates'', J. Lorimer, 1983 * ''Giants of garbage: the Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control'', James Lorimer & Company, 1993

Filmography

* ''

The Champagne Safari ''The Champagne Safari'' is a 1995 Canadian documentary film directed by George Ungar."True-life adventure a sizzling find". ''Toronto Star'', September 1, 1995. A portrait of industrialist Charles Bedaux, it focuses primarily on his controversia ...

'', 1995 * '' The Corporation'', 2003 * ''

Surviving Progress ''Surviving Progress'' is a 2011 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, loosely based on '' A Short History of Progress'', a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse ...

'', 2013 * '' The Price We Pay'', 2014 * ''The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons'', 2022

External links

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The Price We Pay La Face cachée de l’impôt

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

References

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