Summary: Reveals the complicated effects the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of artist, futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris. Director Ondi Timoner documented more than a decade of Harris' increasingly tumultuous life and experiments, including one that involved living under 24-hour electronic surveillance, which led to his mental collapse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiepix Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: Documentarian Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOSummary: Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy who helped shape the digital landscape of today. He helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit. Chronicling his pioneering efforts crusading for open access and free speech and the resulting legal nightmare and tragedy that ensued, the documentary is a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant tech millionaire who renounced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTSummary: Princess Shaw placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. This is the extraordinary true story of an aspiring musician down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous YouTube artist Kutiman to create a magical collaboration that would bring her music to a whole new audience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRESummary: People from 192 countries submitted more than 80,000 videos to YouTube of personal events that happened in their lives on July 24th, 2010. Over 4,500 hours of contributed footage was sifted through to create this motion picture event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFSummary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017