In October 2009, 27-year-old Sam Benjamins was diagnosed with testicular cancer. During the next eight months of treatment, he kept this video diary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2010/jul/07/health-sam-benjamins-cancer-diary
Art Against Knives from The Double on Vimeo.
It's a bit embarrassing. People ask what I've been working on lately and I say 'a film about quangos'. They ask 'what are they?' I try to explain and the conversation promptly dies. (If you really want to know you can find out here.) But boredom is a powerful tool. It's why bankers, politicians, lawyers and accountants rule the world, not pop stars. Because most of us lose interest in articles containing words like ‘subprime mortgage', ‘private finance initiative' or ‘tax loophole' before the second paragraph. Learning about the myriad ways in which we get robbed every day is boring - fact....
And it's why we're losing billions of pounds of our hard-earned taxes (90 to be precise) a year to these quasi-non-governmental-whateveryoucallthems. Perhaps the Quango Awards will help! As part of our investigation we have looked into the spending of these government-hired organisations to see just how effectively taxpayers' money is being spent.
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