Shows
The Kainos PodcastTeam Light Can Save the World: Ari Kuschnir on the Power of AI ArtJoin Alexander and Ari on 28 August at 6pm London time for a private community session on AI filmmaking, the aesthetics of the future and the role of art in shifting culture by signing up as a founding member. Each month, we host group sensemaking sessions, invite guests like Iain McGilchrist and Nora Bateson, and learn new practices together. A year ago, my friend Ari Kuschnir produced an AI film of Donald Trump drinking Ayahuasca. He sent it to me and it blew me away. It was funny, nuanced and beautifully crafted, and we teamed up to promote...
2025-08-2754 min
The Kainos PodcastWhat If We’re All Right? with Stephanie LeppStephanie Lepp is an award-winning producer, storyteller, and speaker, whose work strives to expand hearts and minds. She’s the former Executive Director at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a non-profit think tank that addresses political polarization at its cultural roots. Before that, she was the Executive Producer at the Center for Humane Technology, the organization at the heart of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. Today, she leads Synthesis Media, a non-profit production studio devoted to expanding hearts and minds.Stephanie recently delivered a TED Talk about her project Faces of X, which uses a ‘thesis, anti...
2025-08-0839 min
The Kainos PodcastLeviathan: Full DocumentaryTo help us make more films like this, and to gain access to the full interviews with ‘Leviathan’ guests, our ‘Sensemaking Companion’ and an extensive archive, become a Kainos subscriber for just $6 a month. Synopsis Why is social trust breaking down, and how do we find it again? This is the question at the heart of Leviathan. Directed and produced by Alexander Beiner, it draws on sociology, myth, psychology, economics and systems theory to delve into the deep code of culture and make sense of the times we live in. It’s a journey that invites th...
2025-06-261h 20
Progressives for TrumpReacting to viral Trump Ayahuasca videoIn this video, I react and respond to the viral Trump Ayahuasca AI generated art video by Alexander Beiner, Jason Silva and Ari Kuschnir. Original here: https://www.instagram.com/alexander_beiner/reel/C--kIqnINjH/?hl=en
I talk about Why Reaction Videos rock, The Challenge of Sovereignty, the 5 Monkeys experiment, How to Live Purposefully without Needing to Heal, Money and the link between Trauma and Physicality.
2024-10-1019 min