The End of the Internet - Installation

THE FILM

A film about the invisible operating system of the modern world. From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement.  These radicals are confronting internet infrastructure and the unexpected ways it exerts pressure on their way of life. A journey through infrastructure, power, and history with the dissidents trying to hardwire a new path forward. 

THE INSTALLATION

Before each screening, audiences are invited to join a secret server hidden inside the cinema — a private, offline network, completely disconnected from the internet. Inside this virtual space, a parallel version of the film unfolds. The audience is invited to explore raw footage, deleted scenes, research fragments, rough director’s notes, anonymous chat rooms, and hidden easter eggs — materials that exist nowhere else.

Accompanying this experience is a 4-channel video unfolding on consumer-grade video monitors. These screens display a live feed of the activity unfolding on the secret network: what files are being accessed, what material is being viewed, the anonymous chat that is unfolding in real time.