An extremely wealthy benefactor decides to buy up a plot of land and provide housing for a small faction of self-proclaimed communists in Alford, Massachusetts in the powerful, provocative, and infuriating documentary from Sinéad O’Shea, All About the Money. Her film begins with what should be a startling statistic—that the top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90% combined—but we’ve become so familiar with this figure that it lacks the sting it should. Enter 0.01%-er Fergie Chambers, the heir of a long line of media billionaires, who – both accurately and ironically – believes that America’s wealth inequality is fundamentally destructive. And so the wealthy individual does something unconventional about it: a small-scale effort to oversee the function of a community that doesn’t have to worry about money. Read More