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WERNER HERZOG’S LO AND BEHOLD GETS BEHELD IN NOV.

NETSCOUNT PRESENTS A WERNER HERZOG FILM
LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD

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LO AND BEHOLD: Werzog’s newest exploration

Lo and Behold, Reveries From a Connected World is Werner Herzog's latest cinematic project, one that takes the viewer through the history of the internet, in details you wouldn't possibly imagine. The past, present and future of our digital interactions are scrutinised and philosophised upon by the director himself, as we've come to expect from his previous films such as Grizzly Bear, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss. The film is divided into chapters, each taking into consideration both the amazement and the darkness of such a monumental invention.

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Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Directed by Werner Herzog

A bold and multidimensional documentary about the glories and the drawbacks of the Internet.

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Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog takes on the internet

Master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) examines the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Working with NETSCOUT, a world leader in-real time service assurance and cybersecurity, which came aboard as a producer and led him into a new world, Herzog conducted original interviews with cyberspace pioneers and prophets such as PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick.

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Computer Weekly at the movies: Werner Herzog takes on the internet

Computer Weekly sat down to watch Werner Herzog’s latest documentary on the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

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“Werner Herzog Sings The Body Electric: His new documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”

September 12, 2016 by Guest Contributor
“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”
– Walt Whitman

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What Werner Herzog’s new film ‘Lo and Behold’ reveals about the internet

As the internet makes its way into more aspects of our everyday lives, Werner Herzog takes a closer look at the ethics of information flows in a new documentary. Alexander Nazaryan meets the German filmmaker  
    
Do not look at the photos of the Nikki Catsouras car crash that remain on the internet, lingering there maliciously despite the efforts of her parents to scrub them through ReputationDefender and, more simply, pleas to human decency. Look at pictures of Rollerblading dachshunds, click through a BuzzFeed quiz about Full House, read an article about Donald Trump’s grooming habits. Take a walk, for God’s sake. The photos of Catsouras’s mangled body hanging out of a car, head split open – as well as the story of how those photos ended up being disseminated on the internet – represent the most debased instincts of humanity. I gave in and looked, thinking they couldn’t be that bad. I was wrong.

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