Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph is an American musician, filmmaker, author, and activist. His most recent media work is the live-action film InterReflections, released on Oct 6th, 2020. Other notable credits included the award-winning “Zeitgeist Film Series,” the Culture in Decline web series, and his book The New Human Rights Movement, published in 2017 by BenBella books.

In 2009, he founded “The Zeitgeist Movement,” a global, nonprofit sustainability advocacy group, and has been on the Advisory Board/Steering Committee for “Project Peace on Earth“ since 2013. He also founded and curated the Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival for the arts and periodically worked with UN working groups, including UNFUCA and The World Academy. He is published in Cadmus Journal and is part of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Joseph has given talks worldwide, including in the UK, Canada, Germany, America, Brazil & Israel. He was a featured speaker at the 2011 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice, The Huffington Post, The Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, The Examiner, and many other media outlets.

He has participated in multiple TEDx Events, worked with The Global Summit, and is a frequent social critic on Russia Today's news network. In addition, he has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture, Watching The Hawks, BoomBust, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, The David Pakman show, Christopher Ryans “Tangentially Speaking” podcast, Telesur’s Empire Files with Abby Martin, The Jimmy Dore Show, and others.

In 2013, Peter Joseph was hired to direct the Official Music Video “God is Dead?” by Rock Hall of Fame artist Black Sabbath. The nearly 9-minute video comprised segments from The Zeitgeist Film Series at Ozzy Osborne’s and the band’s request.

As a classical musician, predating his film and activist work, in 2002, Joseph released an album of J.S. Bach transcriptions for Marimba entitled “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.” This album has now been re-released and can be listened to for free online. The title track composition, “The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,” originally for harpsichord, is the only known recorded arrangement of the famous work for solo marimba.

Joseph’s work is produced, published, and (mainly) distributed directly through his company, Gentle Machine Productions LLC.