ABSTRACT
Money Puzzles is a documentary about money and debt, austerity and solidarity, shot in 2015 in the UK, Greece, Spain, Belgium and Argentina, which sets out to question the way that money is represented, how it works, who controls it and to what effect. This chapter demonstrates how the institutional structures of finance capitalism are hidden in plain sight. In response to the environment, Money Puzzles takes full account of it by borrowing from the widest range of sources, both historical and contemporary, most of them freely available on the web. This includes historical archive sources like an official documentary about the Royal Mint from the early 1950s, or the German agitprop film Kuhle Wampe. There are clips from recent documentaries by well-known directors; a French museum film; television news and video streams; political satire from UK and Australian television; activist videos from Spain; cartoons from various sources.
