Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)

  • 27% of critics liked it
    (11 reviews)

  • 36% of users liked it
    (193 ratings)

With wonderful heart and an impressive sense of scale, Tiffany Shlain's vibrant and insightful documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy-while… More

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PG, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By
Tiffany Shlain, Tiffany Shane
Written By
Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg, Carlton Evans, Sawyer Steele
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Sep 16, 2011 Limited
Paladin Films

Critic Reviews

  • Sara Stewart, New York Post

    This pro-Internet "declaration of interdependence" has all the narrative focus of a Twitter feed.

  • Paul Brunick, New York Times

    There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only "Connected" had a stronger center of gravity.

  • Nick Schager, Village Voice

    Like Shlain's hand-written diagram in which lines twist and knot while linking various subjects, the film resembles not a coherent thesis but a tangle of semi-related ideas.

  • Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

    The film ultimately works best as a daughter's heartfelt tribute to an enormously devoted and emotionally generous parent. Unfortunately, that's just not enough to, well, connect us to the bigger picture.

  • Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

    Your heart will go out to Shlain, who clearly adored her father. But other parts of "Connected" may remind you of an Al Gore lecture.

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  • Byron B


    I saw this at the 2011 Cleveland International Film Fest. Lots of interesting ideas in this doc. Daughter Tiffany makes a film about how it is a small world after all as she thinks about the concepts her father Dr. Leonard Shlain studied. We should think of the world with both… More

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