“Life in a Day is a compilation of the most compelling images honed by executive producer Ridley Scott and his team,Their task was to create a unique cinematic experience: in beautiful and harrowing honesty, what it is to be alive on Earth today.” Well, that’s according to its promoters anyway.

There’s a live screening on youtube – live at 3.00 am Thhursday – repeated 7pm Friday

This could be an interesting interpretation of  ‘Globalisation’ – or it could just be a load of touchy feely ethnocentric postmodern (is that an oxymoron?) pants.

If it’s done well it should add something to  your understanding of ‘Global culture’, and if it’s done badly – well it’ll give you a deeper appreciation  of how much more useful United Nations statistics are (and we will be looking at a lot of these next week) than film in giving us an insight into political, economic and cultural diversity across the globe.

Either way I think it’s worth checking out…and probably more interesting and a damn site cheaper than another Friday evening in the pub.

Oh, and all of this is part of the Sundance film festival – one of the many things I just don’t really have time to explore!