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SPECIAL SCREENING: Doku WATCHING YOU - DIE WELT VON PALANTIR UND ALEX KARP mit Regiegespräch
In the organizer's words:
Special screening of the documentary "WATCHING YOU - THE WORLD OF PALANTIR AND ALEX KARP" by Klaus Stern.
In attendance and followed by a discussion with the director.
As part of the Hessian Documentary Film Festival.
In cooperation with the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung - FBW.
In cooperation with Amnesty International Wiesbaden.
Nominated for the Hessian Film and Cinema Award 2024!
With his company Palantir Technologies, US entrepreneur Alex Karp has created the successful and controversial data analysis software "Gotham". On the one hand, it enables states to comprehensively monitor their citizens. On the other hand, it supports intelligence services, the military and police authorities, including in Germany, with information that can be used to solve crimes - or for targeted killings. Palantir is currently an important partner of Ukraine in the defense war against Russia.
The company is as secretive as it is mysterious. It became big with its work for the CIA and NSA. It is worth over 50 billion US dollars on the stock exchange. Osama Bin Laden is said to have been hunted down with its help. One of its founders, Peter Thiel, is a right-wing libertarian with rather bizarre views who openly supported Trump. The other, Alex Karp, describes himself as a neo-Marxist and leftist and is proud of the fact that his parents were hippies. Today, he is CEO of the largest commercial surveillance company in the world. He admits dryly: "Our product can be used to kill people."
For the first time, a documentary looks at Alex Karp and Palantir. A multi-perspective journey into the heart of darkness.
Opening film DOK.Fest Munich
"A depressingly topical and eye-opening documentary gem of a film" - FBW
"A highly interesting, illuminating documentary about the largest private surveillance company in the world" - artechock
"An equally curious and persistent film about an exciting mystery" - FAZ
"An important documentary about the new capitalism" - film-rezensionen.de
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