IT’S OUT!
'Hacking at Leaves' (2024, 108 min)
is now publicly available
on the Internet Archive.
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.
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After a series of increasingly disheartening conversations with documentary distributors—and watching the doc scene grow more risk-averse, sanitized, and commodified—I’ve decided to release Hacking at Leaves freely on the Internet Archive.
Hacking at Leaves was never meant to fit into a tidy box. It resists the kind of clean narratives the industry often demands—because the reality it documents is messy, contradictory, unresolved. That’s the point.
The Archive was essential to making this film. It was both a research tool and a political reminder: memory is worth protecting, and access matters. I’m proud to let the film live there now—open and available to anyone with an internet connection.
The film is free for all — watch it, share it, talk about it, push back.