The Net
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.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Dietmar Post, Lutz Dammbeck
Actors: Butch Gehring, Chris Waits, David Gelernter, Eva Mattes, Heinz von Foerster, John Brockman, Lutz Dammbeck, Robert W. Taylor, Stewart Brand, Tom Vogt
