Hacks

Synopsis

Hacks is a 73 minute European documentary exploring what nature of "Hacking" is in a social context. In HACKS, the Austrian multimedia artist Christine Bader examines who is the computer hacker and what moves him or her. Is the hacker a Robin Hood in cyber space or an anarchistic agitator? Bader speaks with Dutch, German and American communication freaks who are working with various kinds of network issues, like making the Internet accessible to individual persons (Felipe Rodriguez, founder of Internet provider Xs4all), creating a meeting place in cyber space, or designing an ultramodern communication network on a ‘multimedia art ship‘. ‘Hackers are not encumbered by technical, financial or organizational problems, they just want to do things‘, Rodriguez thinks. That the technological means ‘just to do things‘ are now freely available is demonstrated by the numerous computer initiatives that whiz past in HACKS.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Camera Operator	Bella Halben Ulla Barthold Gabi Schwark Christine Bader Peter Ott
	Camera Intern	Dorothea Carl Reinhard Beets
Editing	Editor	Michael Thaler
Directing	Director	Christine Bader
Visual Effects	Animation	Andreas Kunzmann
Sound	Music	Andreas Kunzmann Jin Choi
	Sound mixer	Graham Whitehead
Crew	Translator	Jenny Krug
Department	Role	Name

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