SCIENCE

boredom

Believe it or not, this is the first serious documentary on boredom. Director Albert Nerenberg asks why the subject of boredom has been so religiously avoided and shows that boredom isn’t what you think it is.

programme information

Duration

1 x 60'

Production Company

Elevator Films

YOP

2013

Definitions

SD HD

Episode Information

Paradoxically, Boredom is a fascinating subject! New evidence suggests that long periods of boredom lead to high-risk behavior such as drug-taking and dangerous sex. Is our current obsession with being constantly entertained a result of a fear of boredom? Boredom, and particularly the boring of children, is seen as a necessary evil, but is it?

Once thought to be a state of mental inactivity, neuroscience now says boredom is a state of stress. Amazingly there has never been a major documentary investigation into the subject. Until Now!

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