Chris Smith’s Multiplatform Collapse

By Michael Gerali
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/collapse_chris_smith_american_movie_20091029/
Chris Smith, director of American Movie and The Yes Men, is back with his most poignant documentary to date, Collapse. In Collapse, Smith interviews Michael Ruppert, a reporter who predicted the current economic crisis in his independent newspaper, From the Wilderness, several years before it occurred. The film, shot in an abandoned warehouse, has Smith digging deep into Ruppert’s beliefs about the current problems and what he feels the future will bring.