No one talks about power these days. We are encouraged to see ourselves as free, independent individuals not controlled by anybody, and we despise politicians as corrupt and empty of all ideas.

But power is all around us. It‘s just that it has shifted and mutated into a massive system of management and control, whose tentacles reach into all parts of our lives. But we can‘t see it because we still think of power in the old terms—of politicians telling us what to do.

The aim of the film I have made—HyperNormalisation—is to bring that new power into focus, and show its true dimensions. It ranges from a giant computer high up in the mountains of northeast America that manages and controls over 7 percent of the worlds total wealth, to the complex algorithms that constantly monitor every move and choice you make online, to modern scientific ideas about what the normal human being should be—in their weight and in their feelings and moods.