SUPERNERDS
A surveillance night by Schauspiel Köln, gebrueder beetz filmproduction and WDR
Stage Play, TV-Live-Event, Second-Screen, Suddenlife Gaming, 90min Documentary, Book
“Supernerds” merges theater, television and interactive media into a transmedia project that explores the phenomenon of Supernerds, web activists and “new dissidents” à la Snowden, Appelbaum or Assange. Parallel to and interwoven with the play and the TV show, the project will make the abstract issue “Digital Surveillance” accessible to a wide audience. We use the second screen applications and the power of Suddenlife Gaming to turn the abstract issue into an emotional experience.
Start your Suddenlife Gaming adventure now: www.supernerds.tv !
or call the “Wiretapping Hotline”: 0221 – 64 308 505
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SUPERNERDS
A surveillance night by Schauspiel Köln, gebrueder beetz filmproduction and WDR
Stage Play, TV-Live-Event, Second-Screen, Suddenlife Gaming, 90min Documentary, Book
SUPERNERDS is a transmedia project about digital surveillance that merges a live TV show, a stage play and interactive media. gebrueder beetz filmproduction created an outstanding “surveillance night” on May 28, 2015 that turned the abstract issue into an emotional experience.
SUPERNERDS happened live on three main platforms: 1) At the theatre Schauspiel Köln where the play “Supernerds” by Angela Richter premiered, 2) on the public broadcaster WDR where the primetime TV show was presented by host Bettina Böttinger, directly from the studio inside the theatre 3) on www.supernerds.tv where the audience could influence the course of the night. All three platforms were closely interlinked: The TV audience could vote online, how deeply the theater audience’s data was to be “scanned”. In several “interactive attacks” host Böttinger and data expert Richard Gutjahr invaded the audience’s privacy. Gutjahr made spectator’s cellphones ring according to attributes that he had aggregated of their personal data, e.g. credit rankings. He hacked a spectator’s smartphone camera. And he even activated webcams of people watching the TV show on a computer and took snapshots of them.
Weeks before the show, people were engaged in the transmedia story by a so called “Suddenlife Gaming”: After registering on the website, players had thrilling experiences when they received dubious phone calls, mysterious messages or handwritten postcards that gave them the feeling to be under surveillance, too. By this innovative and exciting storytelling, SUPERNERDS made the audience reconsider the attitude “I’ve nothing to hide”. The project demonstrated in a playful yet alarming way what the revelations by “Supernerds” such as Edward Snowden or Julian Assange mean for each of us personally.
WDR:
Host: Bettina Böttinger
Technical Supervisor: Harald Glaser
Editor: Irene Dieper
DoP: Gregor Gäb
Production Supervisor: Susanne Trenkel
Production Managers: Uwe J. Phenn, Christian Wulf
Directors: Thomas Menke, Harald Spiess
Cross Promo/ Social Media: Christian Wesener
Editorial: Regina Rohde
Schauspiel Köln:
Starring: Nikolaus Benda, Yuri Englert, Judith Rosmair, Malte Sundermann, Birgit Walter
Stage Set: Katrin Brack
Costumes: Wiebke Schlüter
Music: Malakoff Kowalski
Technical Supervisor: Jens Lorenzen
Dramaturgy: Thomas Laue, Julian Pörksen, Georg Tschurtschenthaler (gebrueder beetz filmproduction)
Director: Angela Richter
gebrueder beetz filmproduction:
Line Producer: Kathrin Isberner
Production Manager: Susanne Heinz
Production Assistant: Tarik Tesfu
Inserts: Matthias Reitze
Editor Inserts: Undine Siepker, Dominik Stahl
DoP Inserts: Cornelia Beißler
Sound Inserts: Michael Geck
Host: Anja Backhaus
Narration: Simon Roden
Interactive Elements: Thadeus Roth, Sebastian Kannegießer, Open Data City
Social Media: Vanessa Bittroff, Ines Khannoussi
Technical Advisor: Sebastian Mondial
Producer & Interactive Concept: Georg Tschurtschenthaler & Hannah Kappes
Editorial Assistant: Zora Nessl
Executive Producer: Christian Beetz
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Schauspiel Köln, Depot 1
28 May 2015 at 7:30 pm -
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WDR
28 May 2015 at 8:15 pm -
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Einsfestival
29 May 2015 at 8:15 pm -
SUPERNERDS
3sat
05 September 2015 at 9:50 pm -
Digital Dissidents
WDR
11 September 2015 at 7:45 am -
Digitale Dissidents
WDR
18 September 2015 at 7:45 am -
Digital Dissidents
Raindance Film Festival - London
26 September 2015 at 2:15 pm -
Digital Dissidents
Raindance Film Festival - London
27 September 2015 at 12:10 pm -
SUPERNERDS at Cologne Conference
The Great Culture Day - Cologne
29 September 2015 at 11:00 am -
Digital Dissidents
Sala Cinemário - 39. São Paulo International Film Festival
22 October 2015 at 10:00 pm -
Digital Dissidents
ESPAÇO ITAÚ DE CINEMA - FREI CANECA 4 - 39. São Paulo International Film Festival
23 October 2015 at 3:45 pm -
Digital Dissidents
Phoenix
24 October 2015 at 10:30 pm -
Digital Dissidents
CINE OLIDO - 39. São Paulo International Film Festival
27 October 2015 at 3:00 pm -
Digital Dissidents
Phoenix
30 October 2015 at 2:15 am -
Digital Dissidents
CINE OLIDO - 39. São Paulo International Film Festival
30 October 2015 at 5:00 pm -
Digital Dissidents
CINESALA - 39. São Paulo International Film Festival
01 November 2015 at 2:00 pm -
Digital Dissidents
EinsFestival
14 November 2015 at 1:20 pm -
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WCSFP - Vienna
03 December 2015 at 4:30 pm -
SUPERNERDS
Lipperlandhalle - Lemgo
27 January 2016 at 2:00 pm -
SUPERNERDS
Australian International Documentary Conference - Melbourne
29 February 2016 at 10:45 am -
SUPERNERDS
transmedia day - Munich
08 March 2016 at 9:00 am -
SUPERNERDS
SXSW Interactive - Austin, Texas
15 March 2016 at 7:00 pm -
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Kammerspiele - Munich
07 May 2016 at 8:00 pm -
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DOK. education - Munich
10 May 2016 at 8:45 am -
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Sheffield - DocFest
12 June 2016 at 8:00 pm -
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WCSFP Stockholm - ToBoldyGo
06 December 2016 at 2:45 pm
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"(...) A huge success for the public service television."
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"'SUPERNERDS' hold a mirror up to the rage of intelligence Big-Data-collecting. A successful experiment - and a plea for a more concious dealing with our privacy."
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Frankfurter Allgemeine, 29.05.15
"(...) An interesting and informative experiment on the public broadcaster WDR."
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"Assange appeared in the show as a 3D hologram. It seemed, Bettina Böttinger, the host, was actually standing in front of him."
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"Apparently, some people were very frightened!"
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"With this innovative project, the public broadcaster WDR set up a multi-channel surveillance scenario."
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"Not just to bug the interested audience, but to engage people in a cross medial way."
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Bild Köln, 30.04.15
"That is going to be the most outstanding theater-tv-experiment of the year."
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"(...) The concept sounds really daring."
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