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film draws connections between the Navajo community, hacker culture, and the DIY movement, suggesting that alternative approaches could facilitate societal transformation: "This is a story about communities. It narrates not only the history of the Navajo
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Europeans from entering the United States, the director oversaw the shooting and interviewing processes remotely from his office in Vienna. He later
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gave the film 8/10 and summarizes that the film "explores the corruption eating away at the core of
American social and political structures and provides yet another example of capitalism's dismal failures." Journalist and media researcher Philipp Stadelmaier states, "This is not just about creating
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a 'movie,' but a toolkit that inspires DIY action. Anyone who wants to avert the apocalypse must let themselves be introduced to the technique of leaf hacking by
Grenzfurthner, which aims to finally uproot a system that has been rotten for a long time."
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