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“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at PhutureCon 2014. The festival will be held in Denver, Colorado, October 11, 2014. Link

“The Gstettensaga: The Rise of Eschenfried” is a social-commentary sausage, run through a Monty Python meat grinder and seasoned with a sprinkling of “Kin-dza-dza!” Two heroes search for the elusive Echsenfriedl (translation: Freddy Lizard) as they wonder a post-apocalyptic world armed with the “newest” gadgets (a VHS camera and a “field telephone” connected to a … Read more

“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at the 2014 Fusion Festival. The festival will be held on the location of the Lärz airfield in Mecklenburg/Germany, June 25-29, 2014. Link

“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at the 2014 San Francisco Global Movie Fest. The festival will be held in San Jose (Bay Area), CA, USA; August 15-17, 2014. Link

“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at the 2014 Fright Night Film Fest, the largest genre film festival in the USA. Proudness. The festival will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, August 1-3 2014. Link

An in-depth review and analysis of “Die Gstettensaga” by Bonni Rambatan was published on the Telekommunisten page. If the film is the defining medium of the 20th century, the social media is what defines the 21st century. That much is clear to anyone who pays attention to the way media constructs the lives and desires … Read more

monochrom and Telekommunisten initiate a scanning routine, looking beyond the hype of digital progress and focusing directly at the critical problems surrounding the increasingly pervasive use of technology. Beyond the gloss of the latest iJunk, is a world of poisoned children, lethal mines, toxic sweatshops and the construction of the most sophisticated surveillance apparatus any … Read more

It took 14 years and not a single marketing campaign… and now it’s really sold out: our monochrom Phatzine #11-14einhalb (German) is gone. Bye bye! Link

A talk performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner / monochrom. We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porn game, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. New technologies are quick to appeal to pornography consumers, and thus … Read more

“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at HOPE X. HOPE X will be held at Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC, July 17-20, 2014. Link