Peter Joseph

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title: "Peter Joseph" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1979-births", "american-conspiracy-theorists", "american-documentary-film-directors", "american-political-writers", "american-founders", "anti-consumerists", "living-people", "american-sustainability-advocates", "writers-about-activism-and-social-change"] description: "American filmmaker and activist (born 1979)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Joseph" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American filmmaker and activist (born 1979) ::

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years_active	2007–present
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• University of North Carolina School of the Arts
• The New School for Social Research | known_for = The Zeitgeist Movement | years_active = 2007–present

Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist. He is best known for the Zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrated, scored, and produced. He is also the founder of the related Zeitgeist Movement. Other work by Joseph includes the 2017 book The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression.

Career

Joseph was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1979 and attended the University of North Carolina and The New School.

In 2009, he founded The Zeitgeist Movement, a self-described "sustainability advocacy organization". It was originally started as the "activist arm" of an organization called The Venus Project, launched by Jacque Fresco in 1994. In 2011, the two organizations separated. Joseph's work with the movement and the Zeitgeist film trilogy has been the subject of national media attention, including articles in The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, VC Reporter, and TheMarker.

Since 2011, Joseph has supported the Occupy movement.

In 2012, he created the satirical miniseries Culture in Decline, which challenges various contemporary cultural phenomena.

In March 2017, BenBella Books published The New Human Rights Movement, authored by Joseph. Abby Martin discussed his views in the book and generally in an interview on Telesur.

Filmography

Film

• Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)
• Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
• InterReflections (2020)
• Zeitgeist: Requiem (2024)

Television

• Culture in Decline (2012)

Music videos

• "God Is Dead?" – Black Sabbath (2013)

Publications

• The New Human Rights Movement (2017)

References

References

1. (August 13, 2017). "Biography {{!}} Peter Joseph".
2. "Peter Joseph, Official Media Archive". peterjoseph.info.
3. (May 16, 2015). "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". The Huffington Post.
4. Tanguay, Brian (September 26, 2017). [https://www.independent.com/news/2017/sep/26/peter-josephs-new-human-rights-movement/ Peter Joseph's 'The New Human Rights Movement.'] ''Santa Barbara Independent.'' Retrieved: August 12, 2018.
5. "Biography – Peter Joseph".
6. Feuer, Alan. (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times.
7. [[Rhonda Swan]], [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_hidethis=no&p_field_label-0=Author&p_text_label-0=rhonda%20swan&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&s_dispstring=byline(rhonda%20swan)%20AND%20date(04/30/2009%20to%2005/01/2009)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=04/30/2009%20to%2005/01/2009)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no A dream worth having], [[The Palm Beach Post]], May 1, 2009
8. [http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ New world re-order: The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County] {{Webarchive. link. (October 6, 2014 , Shane Cohn, VC Reporter, May 12, 2011)
9. (June 20, 2015). "Awaiting Interreflections : Peter Joseph's Highly Anticipated New Film Series Inches Towards its 2016 Release".
10. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203700/ "Culture in decline" in IMDB]
11. [https://www.cultureindecline.com "Culture in decline" Website]
12. (August 18, 2017). "Abby Martin Discusses the Absurdity of Capitalism with Peter Joseph". YouTube.

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