When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like.. violence, pornography and.. political content. Who is controlling what we see and what we think?
Germany | 2018 | 88 Minutes directed by Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck
A gebrueder beetz film production
Music by John Gürtler, Jan Miserre & Lars Voges
“A riveting documentary about how social media might be ruining the world…” The Verge
„Disturbing on several levels, a behind the scenes look at the anonymous toilers who do digital cleaning, policing the internet for violence, child pornography and more.” Los Angeles Times
„Offers an intelligent, thought-provoking insight into the global impact of the major social media companies.“ Screen International
„A neon-lit documentary shot like a noir thriller…This thorough, yet conflicted globe-trotting documentary thriller meets the social media censors struggling to save the web…” Variety
FESTIVALS
World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2018
Rotterdam Film Festival 2018 – Official Selection
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
One World Human Rights Film Festival – Prague
CPH:DOX – Copenhagen
Docville International Documentary Film Festival – Leuven