How To Build
a
Truth Engine
feature length documentary
135 minutes, DCP, color
2024
Austria
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director: Friedrich Moser
executive producer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Tonmoy Monsoor, Geoffrey Smith
producer: Friedrich Moser, Amina Bayou, Ivan Williams, Robert Rippberger
Screenwriter: Friedrich Moser
director of photography: Friedrich Moser
editors: Gernot Grassl, Anna Kirst
sound designer: Bernd Dormayer
music: Thomas Kathriner, Verena Zeiner, Christoph Stock
re-recording mix: Michael Ploederl
story editing: Geoffrey Smith, Jesper Osmund
animations: Jamie Balliu
colorist: Lee Niederkofler
head of production: Peter Janecek
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Disinformation and conspiracy theories have reached a level unwitnessed since the turmoil of the 1930s. Feature documentary, "How To Build A Truth Engine", portrays a crack-team of investigators from the fields of technology, journalism, folklore and neuroscience who show that if you hack the information feed, you can hack somebody’s mind. Following their personal journeys they take us from the information battlefields into the inner workings of the human brain and show how - through us - a web of lies can change reality.
Festivals:
SXSW 2024 - world premiere