The Cleaners
Description
Social media sites — particularly Facebook and YouTube — have been under intense pressure to monitor and delete offensive, pornographic, and incendiary posts. Compassionately portraying the Filipino workers who comb through thousands of online images in the dark of night, The Cleaners exposes the dark side of information technology.
“The influence of social media is more pervasive and pernicious than anything George Orwell could have imagined. The Cleaners offers an intelligent, thought-provoking insight into the global impact of the major social media companies through the testimony of five content moderators responsible for monitoring what is considered legal, decent, and acceptable. It is the starting point for a wide-ranging examination of complex issues surrounding freedom of speech, censorship, and corporate responsibility” – Allan Hunter, Screen Daily
Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block became a team in 2007, working under the name Laokoon (named for the priest in Greek mythology who exposed the lie of the Trojan horse) on theater and media projects. The Cleaners is their feature documentary debut that has its roots in a one-man play and radio play by Riesewieck.
Trailer
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Language English, Tagalog
Year 2018
Runtime 88
Country Germany/Brazil
Director Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Producer Christian Beetz, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Editor Philipp Gromov, Hansjörg Weißbrich, Markus CM Schmidt
Cinematographer Axel Schneppat, Max Preiss
Music John Gürtler, Jan Miserre, Lars Voges