Operation Naked

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Movie
Original title Operation Naked
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 50 minutes
Rod
Director Mario Sixtus
script Mario Sixtus
production Mario Sixtus,
Ole Wilken
music Dominik Lenarczyk ,
Mario Sixtus
camera Patrick Jasim
cut Mia Meyer
occupation

Operation Naked is a German mockumentary from 2016 . Directed by Mario Sixtus .

action

The face blind Michelle Spark founded the start-up Real-o-Rama, one data glasses produced. Initially celebrated, a scandal happens during a live television screening when the teacher Pablo Rothmann is outed as homosexual through smart glasses and then loses his job. Rothmann appears in various television formats in which he criticizes Spark and the data glasses. ZDF and 3sat report on the protagonists in various formats , with short excerpts from fictional programs being shown. The data glasses are later classified as illegal, whereupon Michelle Spark circumvents this ban by giving the glasses away. Later, the "aluminum heads" were founded on the Internet, which violently attack data glasses owners and destroy them. In the end, the smart glasses will become legal again, as Spark develops a QR code that blocks certain people. The film ends with a walk to the subway in the point-of-view shot when a passerby outlines the glasses wearer as gay and beats him up.

useful information

The discussion about data glasses takes place mainly in ZDF formats. Fictitious programs in well-known formats are played, each of which uses the typical clichés of these formats. This means that the film can also be considered media satire .

Operation Naked was nominated for the Prix ​​Geneve European Television Prize and the Grimme Prize in the fiction category .

criticism

“Mario Sixtus has mixed the well-known behavioral patterns and argumentation strategies into a somewhat condensed and exaggerated dystopia that works perfectly as a media and social satire. Which of course will never become reality. Because it has long been a reality - compression and oversubscription removed. "

"Sixtus satirically accentuates helplessness and lack of plan in IT politics. (...) In his 'Mockumentary', the author ties in with real debates, especially the dispute between data protectionists and the advocates of 'post privacy', who consider the dissolution of privacy to be unstoppable. (...) By the way, it is caricatured how unimaginative television can be. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Criticism in the taz
  2. Criticism in the Tagesspiegel