The Net: Unabomber, LSD, & the Internet

Sat, Sep 10
8 pm and 10 pm
$5

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 10 pm.

A longer description of the film is at

wro05.wrocenter.pl/thenet_en.php



Full Other Cinema fall schedule at

www.othercinema.com/f05frame.htm

Venue:

ATA
992 Valencia
San Francisco
(415) 648-0654
http://www.atasite.org

Valenica near 21st.

Directions and public transit info at

http://www.atasite.org/about/

Additional Info:

(415) 648-0654
http://www.othercinema.com