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Films that depict the livestreaming era and the earliest forms of generative AI.
Episode 506 - Internet Movies, Part 6: Terminally Online
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Violent genre films that explore surreal scenarios of internet brain poisoning: trendy social media challenges, deepfakes, targeted advertising, cancel culture, and going viral.
Episode 505 - Internet Movies, Part 5: Cybercrime
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Four films about using the internet to skirt the law – and enact it.
Episode 504 - Internet Movies, Part 4: Docs w/Receipts
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These are four documentaries that capture the early 21st century’s evolving concerns about what the internet is doing to us: empowering fraudsters, obliterating our privacy, rotting our brains, destroying truth, and – eventually – emboldening fascists.
Episode 503 - Internet Movies, Part 3: A Vision of Horror
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Japanese filmmakers saw the horrors of the internet first – namely, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Satoshi Kon. The latter understood the internet perhaps more deeply than any filmmaker of his time, and it’s a pity he didn’t live to help us understand it for much longer.
Episode 502 - Internet Movies, Part 2: Windows '95
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Click "Windows '95." The cinematically crystalized moment in 1995 when computer tech thoroughly becomes a cool thing for cool dudes who surf the net and hack the system, maaaaan.
Episode 501 - Internet Movies, Part 1: In Real Life
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Here, we enter "real life." This episode features movies from across five different decades that depict the oldest forms of computing (way back when it was considered clerical “women’s work”), the birth of blogging/vlogging, and the way the internet technologies have impacted ordinary people’s day-to-day lives.
Note: The clips featured in this episode are not owned by Cinematary and are being used for educational purposes, not for sale. All rights owned by their respective companies.