07-13, 20:00–22:30 (US/Eastern), Little Theatre
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small hackerspace in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.
After the screening, a panel discussion with various people involved in the film will cover themes including hacking, DIY, colonialism, the Navajo and Diné cultures, COVID-19, the pandemic, the USA, the Southwest, nuclearism, Internet history, computer culture, science fiction, subversion, and social change.
Jasmin Hagendorfer is based in Vienna and is an acclaimed contemporary artist, filmmaker, and curator. Through diverse mediums, she delves into sociopolitical themes and gender identity while showcasing her works internationally. As cofounder and festival director of the Porn Film Festival Vienna, she intertwines feminist and queer theories with art and erotica. Her notable contributions include a TEDx talk in Vienna about the environmental benefits of quality pornography and films like Fudliaks!, Slugfest, and Musings of a Mechatronic Mistress.
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Aaron Hillis is an American writer, film critic, director, film festival programmer, and curator. He has over 20 years of experience in the indie film industry, encompassing festivals, programming, development, exhibition, distribution, marketing, filmmaking, and journalism.
Dr. Peter Romine has a long, distinguished record of leadership, teaching, curriculum development, and research. Most recently, he was awarded a multimillion dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of Native Americans completing high school, selecting STEM college majors and careers.
Ryan Finnigan is a Colorado-based designer, builder, and inventor.
Johannes Grenzfurthner manipulates people to positively respond to his lies and made-up realities, and he feeds off these emotions. He is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, author, and performer. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group and film production company. His last feature-length documentaries were Traceroute (2016), Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018), and Hacking at Leaves (2024). His last features were the horror films Masking Threshold (2021) and Razzennest (2022). He is working on the horror feature Solvent (to be released in 2024). He is head of Arse Elektronika, a sex and tech festival in San Francisco, and organizer of Roboexotica, the Festival for Cocktail-Robotics in Vienna.
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