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Yeah, it is a great film!
They also showed this:
"The first short will be the Bitnik collective’s ‘Chess for CCTV Operators’, a project based around hacking into surveillance camera signals in public space, in a three day intervention in the city of Essen. Using a video transmitter, antennae and a chess computer hidden in a portable suitcase, they kidnapped the original surveillance signal and replaced it with an invitation to play chess. The surveillance monitor in the control room was thus taken over from the outside and turned into a games console, overcoming the power structure produced by the surveillance situation.(Although during the three day intervention, none of the people monitoring the footage engaged in a chess game with Bitnik.)"