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    Ulterior States
    An IamSatoshi Production
    Published on Jun 27, 2015

    Ulterior States, an IamSatoshi production, is an argumentative documentary project. The participatory development, production and post ‘guerilla-film-making-methods’, bounced between (non-academic) literature research, video interviews and studio sessions.

    This investigative process allowed having real-life conversations with some thought leaders within the Bitcoin ecosystem. In an attempt to portray the community behind the message to adopt a network, being a one-man team allowed for easier access to the subjects. The enthusiasm and commitment that saturate through the lens in many parts of the film, expose how the adopters of Bitcoin want to explore, to probe and, to show the world, something important, otherwise overlooked.

    The film took three years and 125 videos to complete. Through this journey, I got immersed in the decentralised crypto-currency culture and met a bunch of wonderful futuristic-pirates, I would have never met otherwise. It is becoming easier to admit that Ulterior States is an expression of my perceptions, an extract of the years 2012-2015. The collaged story explores code as activism and discovers a melting pot through the neutrality of a decentralised consensus. It looks to the future from different humanist perspectives and argues that crypto-currencies could lead towards; community governed micro-state applications.

    Ulterior States was completely self-funded and produced as a final project for London South Bank University [MA – Arts & Humanity – Digital Film].

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    Titles By:
    Louis Chang

    Featuring (alphabetically):
    Andreas Antonopoulos
    Julian Assange
    Jessi Baker
    Adam Cleary
    Matt Corallo
    Sven Desai
    Kyle Drake
    Stephen Early
    Mark Edge
    Chris Ellis
    Rick Falkvinge
    Paul Gordon
    Ian Grigg
    Vinay Gupta
    Jonathan Harrison
    Daniel Hassan
    Garrick Hileman
    Denis Jaromil Roio
    John Karanja
    Toni Lane
    Simon Lelieveldt
    Nadav Rosenberg
    Brett Scott
    Lui Smyth
    Elizabeth Starks
    Amir Taaki
    Robin Teigland
    Peter Todd
    Julia Tourianski
    Sveinn Valfells
    Erik Voorhees
    Cody Wilson

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