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Hacking At Leaves
Hacking at Leaves is a 2024 Austrian documentary film directed and written by Johannes Grenzfurthner. It explores various themes including the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker culture, hacker movement, through the lens of the story of a hackerspace in Durango, Colorado, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was produced by monochrom. Plot ''Hacking at Leaves'' features Austrian artist and filmmaker Johannes Grenzfurthner as both host and director, blending documentary and fiction to delve into themes of optimism, freedom, settler colonialism, pandemics, and societal collapse within the American context. The film introduces a fictional element to convey its message. Grenzfurthner, clad in a yellow radiation suit, sits in a 1970s-style control room (which he refers to as his "flat"), contemplating whether he should create a documentary about a makerspace at the Powerhouse Science Center in Durango, Colorado. This makerspace pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Hagendorfer
Jasmin Hagendorfer (also known as Hagendorfer) is a Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer and festival organizer. She is one of the founders and creative director of the ''Porn Film Festival Vienna''. Since 2019 she is the creative director of ''Transition International Queer & Minorities Film Festival''. Her main artistic interest is in installation, sculpture and performance, and her work has been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Turkey, Serbia and Greece. As an artist she is concerned with social and political discourses and questions about gender identity with an emphasis on post-porn political works. Her studio is based in Stockerau near Vienna. As an art curator she creates events such as "Art Unanchored", an art festival that took place on a ship traveling between Vienna and Bratislava, and several queer art shows. She is often part of art and film award juries. Her work as a founder and organizer of the ''Porn Film Festival Vienna'' focuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny Dooley
Sunny Dooley is a Diné storyteller born into the Saltwater Clan and born from the Water's Edge Clan. She shares Hane', or Diné Blessingway stories, and is a former Miss Navajo Nation, having won the title in 1982. Biography Dooley was born to parents Dorothy and Tom Dooley. She is from the Chi Chil' Tah (Where the Oaks Grow) community in New Mexico, and grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. She learned to speak Diné Bizaad as her first language and learned the skill of storytelling from her mother. As a storyteller, Dooley shares stories that have been passed down through generations in her family. In 1979, Dooley graduated from West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. She attended the University of New Mexico, where she received an Associate of Art degree. She later graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in speech communications and minoring in art. While at the school, she was awarded Miss Indian Brigham Young University. In 1982, she competed in Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diagonale
The Diagonale (Festival of Austrian Film) is a film festival that takes place every March in Graz, Austria. The festival was initially held under the auspices of the Austrian Film Commission in Salzburg from 1993 to 1995 but moved to Graz in 1998. Traditional cinema venues are ''Annenhof Kino'', ''Schubertkino'', ''KIZ RoyalKino'', and the ''Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino''. At the end of the festival, expert juries award Austria's most highly endowed film prizes. The Festival of Austrian Film has consolidated its position as a regionally based festival for film buffs that brings the industry and audience together, strengthens Austrian film, and attracts international attention. History First Years The first three Diagonale festivals were organized by the Austrian Film Commission in early December each year in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg. The festival was directed by filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky in 1993 and 1994, and Heinrich Mis (then director of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anger, Styria
Anger is a municipality in the district of Weiz in the Austrian state of Styria. Geography Anger lies about 40 km northeast of Graz, 13 km northeast of Weiz, and 10 km south of Birkfeld Birkfeld is a market town in the district of Weiz in the Austrian state of Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria .... References Cities and towns in Weiz District {{Styria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl
Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt .... History The old ordnance factory in the municipality was used as a concentration camp from 1933 until 1938. Population References Cities and towns in Wiener Neustadt-Land District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant
The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was the first commercial nuclear plant for electric power generation built in Austria, of 3 nuclear plants originally envisioned. Construction of the plant at Zwentendorf, Austria was finished but the plant never entered service. The start-up of the Zwentendorf plant, as well as the construction of the other 2 plants, was prevented by Austrian nuclear power referendum, 1978, a referendum on 5 November 1978, in which a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.Austria's no to nuclear power Peter WeishAustria‘s Anti-Nuclear Crusade Euro Nuclear Construct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navajo Nation Museum
The Navajo Nation Museum is a museum and library on Navajo ground in Window Rock, Arizona. Its collections, exhibits, and other activities focus on the cultural history of the Navajo people. Its activities include traditional museum exhibits, a research library, and programs that help to revive and preserve the Navajo language. Facilities The museum is located in a modern building in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation, next to the Navajo Zoo. It is in the approximate center of a Navajo reservation, about west of Arizona's border with New Mexico. The museum building – officially named the ''Navajo Nation Museum, Library & Visitor's Center'' – also houses the Navajo Nation Library, home to five special collections that support historical, legal, cultural and governmental research. The building is surrounded by the area's typical sandstone cliffs. A trailhead begins outside, leading to an overlook of the reservation. The current building is the prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind-the-scenes Image From The 'Hacking At Leaves' Film Shoot Featuring Johannes Grenzfurthner At The Chimney Of Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Station In 2020
In cinema, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a type of documentary film that features the production of a film or television program. This is often referred to as the EPK (electronic press kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a bonus feature for the film's DVD or Blu-ray release. History Shorter behind-the-scenes documentaries are often used as a bonus on DVDs, as it offers more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew. Occasionally, some films have included a "making of the making-of" as a joke. The making-of is also often released for TV as a part of the promotion of the film. Examples of feature-length making-ofs *''Burden of Dreams'', the ''Fitzcarraldo'' making-of *'' Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse'', the ''Apocalypse Now'' making-of *''Lost in La Mancha'', a making-of documentary of the failed ''The Man Who Killed Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Scott
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, The Slipped Disk, and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world". He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, '' BBS: The Documentary'', and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, '' GET LAMP''. Scott lives in Hopewell Junction, New York. He was the co-owner of the late Twitter celebrity cat Sockington. He works for the Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation. Early life Jason Scott Sadofsky graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman (born December 22, 1956) is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics. Early life and education Altman grew up in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois. After kindergarten his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois. Altman graduated from Deerfield High School (Illinois) in 1975. Altman is an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he earned an undergraduate degree (1980) and a master's degree (1984) in electrical engineering. While at the University of Illinois, Altman co-organized the first Hash Wednesday in Champaign-Urbana in 1977. Altman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to work in Silicon Valley. VPL Research, 3ware, Cornfield Electronics, Maker Faire Altman was an early developer of Virtual Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= * Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Davis
Erik Davis (born June 12, 1967) is an American writer, scholar, journalist and public speaker whose writings have ranged from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his book ''Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information'', as well as his work on California counterculture, including Burning Man, the human potential movement, and the writings of Philip K. Dick. Davis played a critical part in the documentary A Glitch in the Matrix. Biography Early years Born in Redwood City, California in 1967, Davis grew up in Del Mar before attending Yale University, where he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a degree in English. He wrote a senior thesis on science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and has since written a number of articles in the popular press about Dick and his unusual religious experiences. Davis would go on to co-edit '' The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick'', which was published by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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