All Creatures Welcome

2018 Documentary 87 minutes Directed by Sandra Trostel

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About All Creatures Welcome

Sandra Trostel films the Chaos Computer Club at its congresses and at the 2015 summer camp. The picture opens as an arcade game, with the filmmaker as a character called Filmgizmo, and the first rule on screen is to be excellent to one another. A drone circles a plastic rocket set up outside the Hamburg congress hall. Inside are talks, lockpicking, makers, and arguments about how the club should deal with the state and with itself. Trostel paid for the film by crowdfunding and planned to put the finished cut online for nothing.

Cast & crew

More about All Creatures Welcome

Sandra Trostel directed. Thies Mynther wrote the music. IMDb times it at 87 minutes. Wikidata also lists 87 minutes. A public copy runs 1 hour 26 minutes. German and English. Shot at the 32nd and 33rd Chaos Communication Congresses and at the 2015 camp, where a taz report counted 4,500 people. Premiere at the Abaton-Kino in Hamburg on 15 November 2018. She said she would press a button at the next congress and release the film free, under a Creative Commons license, and also put the raw footage online.

Themes

  • A congress treated as a game
  • Hackers in a hall and in a field
  • A film released by its maker
  • Chaos Computer Club
  • Sandra Trostel
  • congress
  • camp
  • Filmgizmo

Background

The Chaos Computer Club's congress and its outdoor camp are the places the film records, not a scripted story.

Making

Trostel told Der Spiegel she would rather release the film herself, free, than wait on a conventional distributor.

Music

Thies Mynther composed the music.

Preservation

An official version with German and English subtitles is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • People shown include Frank Rieger, Rop Gonggrijp, Falk Garbsch, Tim Pritlove, Linus Neumann, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Constanze Kurz, and Jérémie Zimmermann.
  • Der Spiegel described the opening as the screen turning into an arcade game before any congress footage.
  • The club's own slogan on the events is the film's title.

Scenes

  • The film starts as an arcade game and the filmmaker is the player character.
  • A drone circles a plastic rocket outside the Hamburg hall.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (All Creatures Welcome - official version (SUBs-DE-EN).webm)
  • media.ccc.de