Boredom (film)

[5] The documentary examines how boredom negatively impacts health, driving people either to morbidity or high risk behaviours, possibly playing a part in the 2011 England riots,[6] and in addiction,[7] among other social problems.

Nerenberg participates in a "boring" experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo, where he is made to watch a video of two men hanging laundry while his heart rate and cortisol levels are monitored.

[8] He finds himself bored within an extremely short time, and then anxious, nervous and uncomfortable, demonstrating that during boredom, cortisol hormone is released, an activity drug which creates stress.

In a podcast interview with Doug Gordon, Albert Nerenberg states that he frequently makes films about "the obvious", things hiding in plain sight.

[10] Boredom had its world premiere at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montréal on 14 October 2012,[3] where it was in competition with other films in the Canadian Focus section.

[13] It went on to be screened at the Visions du Réel and DOXA Documentary Film Festivals in Nyon, Switzerland[14] and Vancouver[15] at the Vancity Theatre, in April and May 2013.

[18][10] There is also a three-minute featurette on the stages of boredom and a four-minute feature on a proposed artificial mountain in an area of the Netherlands to add interest to the region's otherwise flat landscape.

[3] Writer and critic Anne Brodie calls the documentary "vastly entertaining", with the caveat that the film is not a "real" study as much as a Reefer Madness kind of exercise: "Some academics are interviewed and medical facts are tossed around, which is all good, but at its heart this is just fun to watch.

Stephen Harper was voted Most Boring Canadian