The Net (2003)

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.
Lutz Dammbeck, Dietmar Post
Lutz Dammbeck, Eva Mattes, Tom Vogt, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Butch Gehring, David Gelernter, Robert W. Taylor, Heinz von Foerster, Chris Waits, Norbert Wiener, Ted Kaczynski
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