Hacker CinemaAccelerando
2016 · Film · documentary · 40 min
Directed by Georg Wasner
A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets, centering on excerpts of "Fabrik Poldihütte" (1916), a fragment of an early Austrian sponsored film about Karl Wittgenstein's steel factory, the British documentary and propaganda film "The Battle of the Somme" (1916), the 'reactionary modernist' nazi propaganda film "Metall des Himmels" (1935, Walter Ruttmann), and the text "Europe’s Optical Illusion" (1909) – British pacifist Norman Angell's pamphlet about the 'Great Illusion' that war and military action can help maintain the status of countries in the 'economically civilized' world.
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Reminds me of an aside in Accelerando:
> His suitcase is full of noise, but what's coming out of the stereo is ragtime. Subtract entropy from a data stream – coincidentally uncompressing it – and what's left is information. With a capacity of about a trillion terabytes, the suitcase's holographic storage reservoir has enough capacity to hold every music, film, and video production of the twentieth century with room to spare. This is all stuff that is effectively out of copyright control, work-for-hire owned by bankrupt companies, released before the CCAA could make their media clampdown stick. Manfred is streaming the music through Annette's stereo – but keeping the noise it was convoluted with. High-grade entropy is valuable, too ...
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
Maybe Accelerando could be made into a movie...
Who could direct it?