The Net

The documentary investigates the background of Ted Kaczynski. He was the man behind a bombing campaign that ran for years, and he argued a case against technology. The film places him inside the web of technology at the end of the twentieth century. Inside that same web are artists, cyberneticists and leading figures of the counterculture. The director looks for connections among them: optimism about technology, experiments in mind control, and the movements of the sixties. The connections he draws are the film’s own claims; the documentary reaches no firm conclusion. The account joins travel writing with investigative journalism. It uses no language that justifies the violence. Lutz Dammbeck’s hundred and twenty one minute German documentary was completed in 2003.