The Are You Happy? Project

Are you happy?

May 18th 2013

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  • i love feeling happy again
  • i can think back to so many of these moments of awareness of feeling happy
  • i feel happy
  • i can feel i am very very happy in the passing roar
  • i feel so much stronger now and happy to know i can swing the same weight bell as my husband

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The Project

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Exactly fifty years ago, Marceline Loridan and Nadine Baillot asked people on the streets of Paris, Are you happy? in a documentary experiment by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

The Are you happy? project is finding out what happens when we ask the same question in the global environment of the web today.

Take Part

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Filmmakers around the world have been contributing to the project, asking people; Are you happy?

We are looking for people to get involved — re-staging or re-interpreting the 1960 interviews in their own neighbourhood today.