Brett Carollo

Brett’s obsession with film began at an early age, and by his teenage years, he was a committed cinephile. His later studies in depth psychology and comparative religion revealed to him that films are windows into the collective psyche. His misadventures with psychedelia and pop culture occultism, and his subsequent conversion to Orthodox Christianity, further clued him into the fact that film—and culture in general—is also a tool for manipulating mass consciousness at a fundamental, spiritual level. Thus, bringing to bear a deep politics perspective on the study of film, Brett examines how the medium is used by powerful agencies, often in a clandestine manner, to engineer public values, attitudes, and worldviews.