The Author

Peter Joseph is a filmmaker, author and activist. His most recent release is the live action film InterReflections (Oct 6th 2020.) His 4th feature film, Zeitgeist Requiem, is pending online release, set for early 2025.

Historical projects include the award-winning “Zeitgeist Film Series”, three of which were featured on Netflix streaming; the Culture in Decline web series and his book The New Human Rights Movement, published in 2017 by BenBella books. He currently hosts the Revolution Now! Podcast, which started in 2020.

In 2013, Joseph was hired to direct the Official Music Video “God is Dead?” by Rock Hall of Fame artist Black Sabbath. The 9 min. video was composed of segments from The Zeitgeist Film Series, at Ozzy Osborne’s and the band’s request. In 2022 UDiscoverMusic deemed the work as one of “The 12 Best Heavy Metal Music Videos Of All Time.”

In 2009, he founded “The Zeitgeist Movement”, a global, nonprofit sustainability advocacy group and has been on the Advisory Board/Steering Committee for “Project-Peace on Earth“ since 2013. He also founded and curates the Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival for the arts and periodically works with UNFUCA and The World Academy.

He is published in the Cadmus Journal and is part of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Joseph has given about 30 lectures on the subject of social sustainability since 2009, including in the UK, Canada, Germany, America, Brazil & Israel. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference [Lecture Here].

His work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice, The Huffington Post, The Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, The Examiner and many other media outlets. He has participated in multiple TEDx Events, has worked with The Global Summit  and has been a frequent critic on the news network Russia Today. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture, Watching The Hawks, BoomBust, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, The David Pakman show, Christopher Ryans “Tangentially Speaking” podcast, Telesur’s Empire Files with Abby Martin, The Jimmy Dore Show, the Marianne Williamson’s podcast and others.

As a classical musician, predating his film and activist work, in 2002, Joseph released an album of J.S. Bach transcriptions for Marimba entitled “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue”. This album has now been re-released and can be listened to free online. Joseph’s work is produced, published and (mostly) distributed directly through his company, Gentle Machine Productions LLC.