Netflix Documentary Recommendation: The Creative Brain (2019)

This was an interesting documentary in that it opened my eyes on that I thought creativity meant in terms of originality and failure.  It is based from David Eagleman’s book, The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World.  It focuses on people from varying professions where creativity must be the central point of their work.  It covers what a creative mind is, where it comes from, and why we create in the first place.  It includes conversations between David Eagleman (neuroscientist/writer) and D.B. Weiss (television producer and writer), Kelis (singer and Le Cordon Bleu trained chef), Tim Robbins (actor, director, screenwriter), Michael Chabon (author), Nathan Myhvold (co-founder of Intellectual Ventures), Robert Glasper (pianist and composer), Nick Cave (musician, author, composer), Bjarke Ingels (architect), Claire Elise Boucher/Grimes (singer, songwriter, visual artist), and Phil Tippett (movie director and visual effects supervisor).  If you want to see the trailer for The Creative Brain, click the little brain below.

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Director: Jennifer Beamish and Toby Trackman

Writer: David Eagleman