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Zulu Time

1999 52 min
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Best known as the amicable Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Derrick de Kerckhove is at the core of a world think-tank dedicated to probing the rapid changes of our global village. The documentary Zulu Time follows this "wired man" in his globe-trotting career as media prophet and probes into some of the most fascinating questions confronting us in our new electronic galaxy. As the spiritual inheritor of McLuhan's thought, de Kerckhove lives in perpetual oscillation between himself and his double, Marshall McLuhan, with whom he has become publicly identified and virtually …

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Best known as the amicable Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Derrick de Kerckhove is at the core of a world think-tank dedicated to probing the rapid changes of our global village. The documentary Zulu Time follows this "wired man" in his globe-trotting career as media prophet and probes into some of the most fascinating questions confronting us in our new electronic galaxy. As the spiritual inheritor of McLuhan's thought, de Kerckhove lives in perpetual oscillation between himself and his double, Marshall McLuhan, with whom he has become publicly identified and virtually assimilated.

  • director
    Jonny Silver
  • producer
    Yves Bisaillon
    Danièle Caloz
  • associate producer
    Yves Bisaillon
  • script
    Sophie Artaud
    Jonny Silver
  • camera
    Damir Chytil
    Ljubomir Sasic
  • editing
    Gino Zolezzi
  • line production
    Sophie Artaud
  • mixing
    Daniel Pellerin
  • music
    Svetlan
  • participation
    Derrick de Kerckhove
    Georges-Alexandre Gagnon

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