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The End of the Internet

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When they talk about the internet, they want us to think about a cloud… something vaporous, insubstantial, intangible. That’s a strategic choice to camouflage the real-world impacts of this resource-avaracious technology, which relies on more than 10,000 data centres around the world, not to mention its nefarious but mostly invisible utilities when it comes to censorship and the manipulation of information, surveillance, and exploitation. Canadian filmmaker Dylan Reibling’s doc celebrates the dissidents and hacktivists attempting to blaze a different path, establishing independent circuits of communication beyond the control of the state and its bankrollers.

Dylan Reibling will be in attendance June 4. Before each screening, the audience will be given access to a secret server inside the cinema — a private, isolated network not connected to the internet.

Here they will get exclusive access to research material, rough notes, deleted scenes, raw footage, chat rooms and hidden easter eggs that do not exist anywhere else. This bespoke art installation will begin 15 minutes before the screening, and conclude at the end of the evening.

Director

Dylan Reibling

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2025

Language

In English, Portuguese, and Spanish with English subtitles

19+
107 min

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Credits

Cinematography

Daniel Froidevaux, Jared Raab

Editor

Dylan Reibling

Original Music

Adrian Popovich

Production Design

Dylan Reibling

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