Das Netz (2003)
Title: The Net
Original Title: Das Netz
Release Date: 2003-10-01
Status: Released
Rating: 6/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: DE
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: ARTE, Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion, SWR
More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
Cast
Eva Mattes
Narrator (voice)
Tom Vogt
Narrator (voice)
Lutz Dammbeck
Self
Stewart Brand
Self
John Brockman
Self
Butch Gehring
Self
David Gelernter
Himself
Robert W. Taylor
Himself
Heinz von Foerster
Himself
Chris Waits
Himself
