1 00:00:26,223 --> 00:00:29,135 My name is Mauri. I come from Helsinki. 2 00:00:48,029 --> 00:00:52,602 For me everything started when I saw Zeitgeist Addendum online and 3 00:00:52,663 --> 00:00:55,982 the same evening I went to the global forum. 4 00:00:55,982 --> 00:00:58,927 I was surprised to see that in Finland there were other people who had seen it 5 00:00:58,958 --> 00:01:01,630 so I thought: should we start doing something? 6 00:01:01,661 --> 00:01:08,201 Then I discussed for a while in the forum until there was enough people for a meeting. 7 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:12,438 We met and decided to start a chapter in Finland. 8 00:01:40,980 --> 00:01:44,741 Yeah, we agreed on the global forum to have a meeting 9 00:01:44,741 --> 00:01:47,710 and I remember how we finally met 10 00:01:47,772 --> 00:01:51,208 on the railway station and walked together to 11 00:01:51,285 --> 00:01:54,741 a restaurant to have something to eat. 12 00:01:54,772 --> 00:01:59,232 In the beginning we glared at each other for an hour or so, clearly thinking what kind of 13 00:01:59,263 --> 00:02:02,570 people these other folks are, that are they completely sane or something 14 00:02:02,570 --> 00:02:08,581 and I guess we decided that we need a website and our own discussion forum 15 00:02:08,581 --> 00:02:12,937 and that we need to organize something for the first Z-day. 16 00:02:12,937 --> 00:02:18,418 We managed to organize an Addendum screening in a movie theatre. 17 00:02:52,654 --> 00:02:55,336 What people have probably liked the most, 18 00:02:55,336 --> 00:02:56,890 of what we have done here in Finland, 19 00:02:56,890 --> 00:02:59,364 are the kind of real-life happenings. 20 00:02:59,364 --> 00:03:02,893 One example was when we went to the Kamppi mall and 21 00:03:02,893 --> 00:03:06,899 organized a "Public Freeze" where everyone stood still at the same time 22 00:03:06,899 --> 00:03:09,903 for exactly five minutes and in the end 23 00:03:09,903 --> 00:03:13,574 we opened our palms and dropped huge amounts of five-cent coins on the floor 24 00:03:13,574 --> 00:03:19,746 that bounced and tinkled on the floor while someone from the upper floor threw a load of fake ten-euro notes 25 00:03:19,746 --> 00:03:22,833 that had www.zeitgeist.fi written on them. 26 00:03:23,818 --> 00:03:25,696 Afterwards people were super excited and said 27 00:03:25,696 --> 00:03:27,693 "Yeah, more of this kind of action" 28 00:03:27,693 --> 00:03:30,780 "just send me a message and I'll be there!" 29 00:03:31,442 --> 00:03:34,888 In my opinion these have been the best actions we've done in the Finnish Zeitgeist movement 30 00:03:34,888 --> 00:03:37,257 this kind of small real-life stunts. 31 00:03:37,257 --> 00:03:41,889 Apart from those we've had national meetings where we've had 32 00:03:41,889 --> 00:03:43,544 a good amount of participants. 33 00:04:55,876 --> 00:04:58,101 I had just returned to Finland from a trip in Asia 34 00:04:58,101 --> 00:05:00,334 where I had shot with a tiny camera 35 00:05:00,334 --> 00:05:03,584 how a buffalo takes a shit and other witty material 36 00:05:03,584 --> 00:05:06,745 and I realized how nice it was to edit it together. 37 00:05:06,745 --> 00:05:08,700 Since I still had the camera 38 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:10,889 I thought I really need to shoot and edit something. 39 00:05:10,889 --> 00:05:13,855 We were just in a Zeitgeist meeting and I saw how 40 00:05:13,855 --> 00:05:17,809 the young guns spoke with great conviction: 41 00:05:17,809 --> 00:05:20,816 "let's make this world a better place" while the comments from outside 42 00:05:20,816 --> 00:05:27,203 the movement were always that these people are some freaks and conspiracy theorists 43 00:05:27,203 --> 00:05:28,970 socialists, communists 44 00:05:28,970 --> 00:05:31,265 so I was pissed off and thinking 45 00:05:31,265 --> 00:05:35,173 if only you'd see their faces and hear what they have to say 46 00:05:35,173 --> 00:05:38,905 so the trolling in internet would stop immediately. 47 00:05:41,104 --> 00:05:46,038 In the beginning our vision was just to have Henkka in front of camera to tell about 48 00:05:46,038 --> 00:05:50,814 The Zeitgeist Movement, coupled with Yrjö Kallinen videos... 49 00:05:50,814 --> 00:05:57,285 [he makes a mistake and the shot is re-done] 50 00:05:57,285 --> 00:06:15,503 ... 51 00:06:18,103 --> 00:06:19,989 Originally the idea was just that 52 00:06:19,989 --> 00:06:21,481 we'll shoot Henkka speaking and 53 00:06:21,481 --> 00:06:23,966 color it with Yrjö Kallinen material 54 00:06:23,966 --> 00:06:27,338 and maybe some nice music and stuff. 55 00:06:27,338 --> 00:06:29,976 We had no idea of making a full-length film. 56 00:06:30,729 --> 00:06:33,359 Then we gathered a core group of people 57 00:06:33,359 --> 00:06:37,111 and suddenly the whole project started to inflate, 58 00:06:37,111 --> 00:06:40,010 so many people to interview, that we had to prioritize 59 00:06:40,010 --> 00:06:42,865 that we just can't take on such a massive production 60 00:06:42,865 --> 00:06:45,287 because none of us had ever done a documentary film 61 00:06:45,287 --> 00:06:48,341 but we didn't let it slow us down. 62 00:07:30,868 --> 00:07:33,616 A huge inspiration for this film 63 00:07:33,616 --> 00:07:35,611 at least for me personally 64 00:07:35,611 --> 00:07:37,532 was the fact that I found out about Yrjö Kallinen 65 00:07:38,362 --> 00:07:39,584 a man who used to live 66 00:07:39,615 --> 00:07:41,283 long ago before me 67 00:07:41,621 --> 00:07:43,698 and how he so succintly discussed 68 00:07:43,698 --> 00:07:47,899 exactly the same topics that The Zeitgeist Movement deals with. 69 00:07:50,128 --> 00:07:52,505 It was a kind of call to action, that 70 00:07:52,566 --> 00:07:55,424 yes, even in Finland these matters have been touched upon, and 71 00:07:55,424 --> 00:08:00,283 now it's up to our generation to bring up the same topics. 72 00:08:23,372 --> 00:08:29,139 In the beginning we were like "I wonder if we could ask someone to be interviewed in our film?" 73 00:08:29,169 --> 00:08:32,427 and I was like "I don't know if anyone would be willing". 74 00:08:32,427 --> 00:08:35,220 But then we just started putting names on paper 75 00:08:35,220 --> 00:08:37,533 and we noted down some ten names in a day 76 00:08:37,533 --> 00:08:40,446 and we just started calling them and sending e-mails 77 00:08:40,446 --> 00:08:42,674 probing for interest. 78 00:08:42,674 --> 00:08:45,580 To our surprise pretty much everyone agreed 79 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:48,044 and wanted to be interviewed. 80 00:08:48,567 --> 00:08:50,871 Apparently it showed 81 00:08:50,871 --> 00:08:54,820 that we are genuinely trying to do something good 82 00:08:54,820 --> 00:09:00,238 and we are not just adhering to some ideology: "buy this and it's a solution to everything" 83 00:09:00,274 --> 00:09:03,730 but instead: young people are trying their best 84 00:09:03,730 --> 00:09:07,203 to bring out some light at the end of the tunnel. 85 00:09:15,789 --> 00:09:17,218 So, the question was 86 00:09:17,218 --> 00:09:18,855 "well, what do we need?" 87 00:09:18,870 --> 00:09:21,400 and I was there with my four-hundred-euro camera. 88 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,579 I thought I have to have a better camera so I bought one. 89 00:09:24,579 --> 00:09:27,790 Suddenly Vesa comes along 90 00:09:27,790 --> 00:09:30,664 with his professional equipment and know-how 91 00:09:30,664 --> 00:09:32,983 and whatever we needed it 92 00:09:32,983 --> 00:09:35,205 just appeared as if from out of the blue, 93 00:09:35,205 --> 00:09:37,334 almost like ordered. 94 00:09:37,334 --> 00:09:39,208 - Whatever it was we needed 95 00:09:39,208 --> 00:09:41,122 human resources, help in something, 96 00:09:41,122 --> 00:09:43,203 money, professional knowledge... 97 00:10:38,089 --> 00:10:39,363 "The Spirit of the Times" became the name 98 00:10:39,363 --> 00:10:41,425 it wasn't really decided at all 99 00:10:41,425 --> 00:10:43,369 it was just that we needed something 100 00:10:43,369 --> 00:10:45,177 I had come up with a home-made trailer 101 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:48,469 and we had no idea what the film would be 102 00:10:48,484 --> 00:10:51,033 but we thought "it needs to have a name". 103 00:10:51,033 --> 00:10:53,220 So then, of course, I was mulling over "Zeitgeist" 104 00:10:53,220 --> 00:10:56,458 "Yes, Spirit of the Times, that's good" 105 00:10:56,458 --> 00:10:58,337 "People will get this." 106 00:11:41,738 --> 00:11:44,119 We really had no money 107 00:11:44,119 --> 00:11:45,528 to make the film. 108 00:11:45,528 --> 00:11:47,943 Nor we had money to spread out 109 00:11:47,943 --> 00:11:49,659 huge posters everywhere 110 00:11:49,659 --> 00:11:51,584 advertising an upcoming film 111 00:11:51,584 --> 00:11:53,615 so we had one guy from The Zeitgeist Movement who 112 00:11:53,615 --> 00:11:56,580 came up with an ingenious strategy to be implemented in Facebook: 113 00:11:56,610 --> 00:11:59,142 let's create a group that tells 114 00:11:59,142 --> 00:12:00,958 the name of the film 115 00:12:00,958 --> 00:12:03,177 and ask people to invite all their friends in the group. 116 00:12:03,177 --> 00:12:05,175 Just because we had no money for advertising, yet 117 00:12:05,175 --> 00:12:06,888 we felt that the content is important. 118 00:12:06,888 --> 00:12:08,700 What did we get... 119 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:10,739 I remember we started the group in the evening, 120 00:12:10,739 --> 00:12:13,701 and next morning there were 20 000 invited people in it. 121 00:12:15,224 --> 00:12:19,866 I don't even know how many tens or hundreds of thousands it finally achieved 122 00:12:20,203 --> 00:12:23,288 but because of this the film was seen by some 123 00:12:23,288 --> 00:12:25,950 40.000 people during the first day 124 00:12:25,950 --> 00:12:30,190 which totally caught us all unawares. 125 00:12:34,729 --> 00:12:37,890 So far media has not taken interest in the topic. 126 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:41,120 I've approached some reporters just for the kicks 127 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:42,537 and mentioned that 128 00:12:42,537 --> 00:12:46,973 "Hey, this is potentially the most-viewed Finnish documentary film in history" 129 00:12:47,173 --> 00:12:49,253 "so, I was thinking, would you like to write about it?" 130 00:12:50,253 --> 00:12:52,283 They've been pretty positive about it. 131 00:12:52,283 --> 00:12:55,815 They just haven't been aware that something like this has been done 132 00:12:55,815 --> 00:12:59,192 and then they've wanted to cover it. 133 00:13:14,609 --> 00:13:16,743 It was mostly the Zeitgeist folks who 134 00:13:16,743 --> 00:13:18,615 kind of promoted the film 135 00:13:18,615 --> 00:13:20,416 and knew that it's in the works. 136 00:13:20,416 --> 00:13:22,532 They encouraged and helped a lot. 137 00:13:23,055 --> 00:13:27,891 Without the Zeitgeist network this film would have never been made. 138 00:13:27,891 --> 00:13:31,666 Pretty much anything we needed we would just ask from the email list 139 00:13:31,666 --> 00:13:33,453 or Facebook or somewhere 140 00:13:33,453 --> 00:13:35,061 and said we needed help 141 00:13:35,061 --> 00:13:37,176 asking who'd know this and that 142 00:13:37,176 --> 00:13:40,771 and exactly because of this Zeitgeist network 143 00:13:40,771 --> 00:13:43,373 we found the right people to help. 144 00:15:59,064 --> 00:16:02,573 What has been the most important factor in The Zeitgeist Movement 145 00:16:02,573 --> 00:16:05,283 are indeed the people 146 00:16:06,190 --> 00:16:09,787 who have the same basis and understanding of the current society, 147 00:16:09,787 --> 00:16:13,173 and drive, a definite drive, to do something. 148 00:16:14,789 --> 00:16:16,970 I've gained a lot of good friends 149 00:16:16,970 --> 00:16:18,930 from The Zeitgeist Movement. 150 00:16:19,254 --> 00:16:21,254 Whatever I wish to do in the future 151 00:16:21,254 --> 00:16:22,890 to make this world a better place 152 00:16:22,890 --> 00:16:24,899 and whatever projects I might want to take part in 153 00:16:24,899 --> 00:16:27,204 I know that the network from 154 00:16:27,204 --> 00:16:30,117 The Zeitgeist Movement is still there 155 00:16:30,117 --> 00:16:32,382 and from there I will find excited help 156 00:16:32,382 --> 00:16:35,694 if I have anything reasonable to do. 157 00:16:37,155 --> 00:16:39,962 Now I've personally wanted to focus more on 158 00:16:39,962 --> 00:16:41,618 this Occupy Movement. 159 00:16:41,618 --> 00:16:43,755 It feels like immediate action, 160 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:45,414 not mere theorizing, 161 00:16:46,152 --> 00:16:50,197 mulling over theories and discussing 162 00:16:50,197 --> 00:16:53,970 common themes that are not obvious to everyone. 163 00:16:54,831 --> 00:16:58,239 This is at least something practical to do. 164 00:18:05,616 --> 00:18:10,363 What's going on in the world is a very strong process of change. 165 00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:14,112 Above all, it's a process. 166 00:18:14,112 --> 00:18:16,022 We don't know where it leads, 167 00:18:16,022 --> 00:18:17,445 what will we have after that, 168 00:18:17,445 --> 00:18:19,979 will there be the next character of authority, 169 00:18:19,979 --> 00:18:23,060 perhaps we learned nothing in our day and age 170 00:18:23,736 --> 00:18:26,869 and we'll need some masculine character to save us once again? 171 00:18:27,961 --> 00:18:30,015 But the process is running 172 00:18:30,015 --> 00:18:32,142 and we can all be part of it, 173 00:18:32,142 --> 00:18:35,206 share with others what we've learned 174 00:18:35,206 --> 00:18:38,279 regarding this life and about us humans. 175 00:18:39,741 --> 00:18:42,576 I'm sure that as long as we cooperate with one another 176 00:18:42,576 --> 00:18:48,217 we will reach a future worth living in. 177 00:19:23,221 --> 00:19:26,131 The biggest challenge from moving away 178 00:19:26,131 --> 00:19:28,137 from this current state-of-mind and system 179 00:19:28,137 --> 00:19:32,452 apart from the solutions from the authority 180 00:19:32,452 --> 00:19:34,699 - see, we can be given solutions - 181 00:19:35,822 --> 00:19:38,375 The largest obstacle to our development is of course 182 00:19:39,636 --> 00:19:43,386 this certain dream state in which we are living in. 183 00:19:44,368 --> 00:19:46,611 The authority tells us something - 184 00:19:46,611 --> 00:19:48,782 - in some school some great person teaches us - 185 00:19:48,782 --> 00:19:50,823 - and we start repeating it as a truth. 186 00:19:50,823 --> 00:19:52,336 Then we repeat it over and over again 187 00:19:52,336 --> 00:19:54,587 and view the world, demanding: 188 00:19:54,587 --> 00:19:59,702 "Give me proof that what I'm repeating is true". 189 00:19:59,702 --> 00:20:02,579 Like that we feign ourselves and make believe 190 00:20:04,009 --> 00:20:06,061 that the dream state is real. 191 00:20:07,553 --> 00:20:11,616 People need some personal experience, 192 00:20:12,616 --> 00:20:15,219 for instance something that shatters their world view, 193 00:20:16,034 --> 00:20:19,415 to see that what you've taken for granted is now, for the first time 194 00:20:20,061 --> 00:20:22,040 nothing but an illusion. 195 00:20:22,609 --> 00:20:25,288 It might be, for instance, a close encounter with death 196 00:20:25,288 --> 00:20:26,743 - your own or someone close to you - 197 00:20:27,327 --> 00:20:30,205 that awakens the basic questions of life: 198 00:20:30,666 --> 00:20:32,024 "Who am I?" 199 00:20:32,470 --> 00:20:34,260 "What is my relationship to others?" 200 00:20:34,813 --> 00:20:38,288 "What is my relationship with this planet?" 201 00:21:40,771 --> 00:21:45,307 Never stop dreaming!