The best movies to watch to understand the shadowy world of crypto and NFT
After a crypto winter that seems more like the beginning of a new ice age, enthusiasm and demand for speculative investments has been decimated in the past year. It’s not like blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs have disappeared along with their value. As long as the world remains connected, the new artistic and economic aspects of the NFT market are likely here to stay.
Given this reality, The Manual is here to provide a guide to the best films and documentaries that illuminate how these digital tools work – sometimes successfully, sometimes not. The following are not ranked in any particular order, but have been compiled to provide a broad overview of the still emerging Web3 currencies.
The best NFT movie ever made (2021)
Why people would ever buy an NFT is a main question from those unfamiliar with the digital product. IN The best NFT movie ever made, documentary filmmaker Robin Schmidt takes audiences on a journey through the non-fungible token universe, an exploration that looks at not only art, but also music, fashion and finance in an often misunderstood digital world. Crypto art players show the areas in which they operate and what advantages NFTs offer over analog counterparts. Along the way, Schmidt “fails” to cover what is an increasingly expansive electronic space.
“There’s no way I can cover everything. Not without boring you stiff. But I hope that if you make it to the end of this ultimate beast of a film, you come out properly armed to reject or embrace them,” Schmidt explains in “Greatest’s” YouTube description.
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Bonus: “Aku was here”
Although technically neither a movie nor a documentary about NFTs, Aku might be a good young man to know in the Web3 universe. With space helmet and T-shirt, the amazing explorer is a NFT who is one of the first pioneers to be optioned for TV and film projects. Now, as Variety reports, Aku will join film projects as an NFT via production companies Anonymous Content and Permanent Content (a partnership between Shawn Mendes and his manager, Andrew Gertler). Token holders can help create and shape the places Aku goes and the adventures he gets into.
According to his Web 2.0 home description, Aku is “a character created by former MLB player turned artist, Micah Johnson, after hearing a young boy ask, ‘Can astronauts be black?'”
No big movies are out yet, but you can watch Aku take his maiden voyages on his Instagram page:
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NFT and crypto enthusiasts are both optimistic and pessimistic as the technologies break new ground to create a fairer, more accessible and more decentralized Web3. However you do, there is no way to avoid any of the technologies without becoming a relic. It’s probably best to get in at ground level now, before the world is too wide to grasp.
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