Kirby Ferguson has been opening our eyes to the world's lack of originality for the last decade. His Everything is a Remix series has called out movies, music, and even tech for their copy, transform, and combine processes that reuse ideas over and over again. In his latest video, Ferguson points the finger people and how social media and the internet remixes our own personalities, and how to prevent following down the rabbit hole.
Every year, over a thousand high school senior boys come to Texas for a micro experiment in democracy — building their own state government. Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine follow a tight gubernatorial race and find something that's both as depressing and as hopeful as our own actual politics. Boys State comes to select theaters July 31st and Apple TV+ August 14th.