There is not many documentaries about what seems to be the prehistory of the hackerdom (one for cypherpunks is still missing). There are certainly some important books like Bruce Sterling's 1992 The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. That book is a good companion piece to this documentary, so I recommend watching this and reading the book. The documentary does not have an English (or French etc. Italian, or Spanish) translation, and I was tempted to write…

This recent documentary is riding the wave of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) that is gaining more momentum by the day. After years and years of neoliberal austerity politics and 5000 years of debt to quote Graeber's history, we have been told that there is no money for public necessities (education, health, infrastructure etc.) or that debt is bad (just think of the horrific German Ordoliberal Schwarze Null policy that resulted in a decaying infrastructure and ultimately pushing east Germans into…

Maybe not as spectacular as some of the late neon noir drenched Chinese mainland movie, but still compelling. Maybe not so poised as Memory of Murder - but still an interesting foray into the countryside in a key period in China's history 1990s. The years after Tienanmen and during several thwarted attempts at shock therapy. One should see this super 16mm cinematography via this lens. It's the death of cinema the murder of cinema but also the double birth of…

Decoder - is probably the best way to enter the moods, vibes, aesthetics and values of post-punk Berlin of the early 1980s. The movie was a complete surprise - it has lots of cameos by Genesis P. Orridge and William F. Burroughs that should say it all.

Christianne F. and F.M. Einheit kfrom cult Industrial band Eistürzende Neubauten) are totally compelling - like time traveling creatures, they look perfectly at home in the future or the 80s or now. Watch…