Fabricated Realities
Director- Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
2018, Colour, 88 minutes
The big Internet companies, not all which can properly be described "social media", are drowning in the unending flood of online content. From hate mail to pornography, from depictions of child abuse to manipulated war pictures used for propaganda, the necessity for preventive action is growing – if only to avoid damaging one's own public image. As a rule, however, this task is not normally performed by the corporations themselves: "outsourcing" is the cheapest solution as well as the most comfortable – and the contracted companies are also responsible for any corresponding mistakes. The result is that in Manila, for example, an untold number of poorly trained and quickly psychologically impacted "moderators" sit long hours in front of their computer screens and, in accordance to highly schematic and American criteria, use the delete key to wage war against objectionable content on the Internet. The documentary focus of THE CLEANERS is primarily on the work they do, but also looks at the related debate in the USA.
Hans Block was born in Berlin in 1985. He first studied music (with a focus on percussion) at the University of the Arts in Berlin and, from 2010, directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Already as a student he realized his own productions, among others at the bat-Studiotheater (2011-2013) and at the Maxim Gorki Theater (2012/2013).
Moritz Riesewieck was born in 1985 in Herdecke. He gained his first theater experience as an assistant director and guest student at the Berlin Volksbühne, the Schaubühne and the Hamburg Thalia Theater. In 2012, together with Tina Ebert, he founded the group "Laokoon," an association of artists and natural scientists that develops cross-media narrative formats.
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The series is titled ‘FABRICATED REALITIES’ and addresses current discussions in today's world of media - from cyber-bullying, digitalization and fake news to social media and its effects.
‘FABRICATAED REALITIES’ is a series of feature films and documentaries dealing with digitization, (social) media, their opportunities and downsides, and the relationship between people and technology.
The film is available for viewing at
Goethe on Demand — Southeast Asia - Home till the end of the month.
For age group 18 years and above.
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