The Net

Sat, Sep 10
8:00pm and 10:00pm
$5

THE NET: UNABOMBER, LSD, AND THE INTERNET
At last, the North American premiere of Lutz Dammbeck's The Net, the
first in-depth exploration of the Unabomber back-story. Slow and
assured, but utterly stunning in its revelations, this philosopher's
stone of a movie retraces the responses of the Counterculture to
cybernetics. For those who resist these intrusive systems of
technological control, the Unabomber has perhaps come to symbolize an
ultimate figure of Refusal. For those that embrace it, as did and do
the early champions of media art like Marshall McLuhan, Nam Jun Paik,
and Stewart Brand, the promises of worldwide networking and
instantaneous communication outweighed the perils. Told as a travel
journal, Dammbeck's conceptual quest circles through themes of
utopianism, anarchism, terrorism, CIA, MK-ULTRA, LSD, Tim Leary, Ken
Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and of course, the history of the
Internet. Note special show times: 8 and 10pm.

Venue:

Other Cinema
992 Valencia
San Francisco
415-824-3890
www.othercinema.com

992 Valencia at 21st ST in San Francisco's Mission District

Additional Info:

415-824-3890
www.othercinema.com