Michael Ruppert, Chris Smith, Editor
Director Smith interviewed Ruppert over the course of fourteen hours in an interrogation-like setting in an abandoned warehouse basement meat locker near downtown Los Angeles. Ruppert’s interview was shot over five days throughout March and April 2009. The filmmakers distilled these interviews down to this 82 minute monologue with archival footage interspersed as illustration. The title refers to Ruppert’s belief that unsustainable energy and financial policies have led to an ongoing collapse of modern industrial civilization. Smith himself, speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere, said that "What I hoped to reveal was that his obsession with the collapse of industrial civilization has led to the collapse of his life. In the end, it is a character study about his obsession."
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