Brexitannia

The documentary looks at the United Kingdom after the Brexit vote. The vote was held in 2016. The film draws a social portrait of the country in the wake of it. The account rests on the words of ordinary people. Those who speak are heard without judgement being passed. The work also takes up the new populist politics spreading through western democracies. How that politics spreads is the film’s question. The tone of the account is funny in places and frightening in others. In a second part the film turns to specialists. Noam Chomsky is among those who speak. Heidi Mirza and Nick Srnicek are in the film as well. Guy Standing and Federico Campagna speak too, in Timothy George Kelly’s Russian and British coproduction of 2017, which runs eighty minutes.