A Between 1989 and 1999, the activism of Karl Max Kreuger centered around his mail box. From all over the world, fellow anarchists sent personal accounts of their activities to his well-known post address in Holland. Kreuger forwarded letters and information to others, creating a networking system similar to email and internet, just before it became widely used. Kreuger died unexpectedly in 1999 and his correspondence was brought to the IISG in Amsterdam. The film is not attempt to portray Karl Max Kreuger himself, but rather portray a complicated and somewhat diffuse global network of anarchist thinkers, on the threshold of the new-liberal, internet-age era.—Nicoline van Harskamp
Nicoline's long term project project revolves around the letter archive of the Dutch anarchist Karl Max Kreuger (1946-1999), now housed in the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. Kreuger maintained extensive correspondence with about 400 fellow anarchists world wide. Through the study of the letters he exchanged with 60 of them - an investigation of their respective private and political observations and handwriting analyses - and with the help of actors of the relevant age and nationality, van Harskamp constructs their life stories starting from the last date of writing. In a fully staged meeting of correspondents, she suggests what would happen if they were to meet today. The resulting work brings together van Harskamps notes and quotations from over 1000 letters - video documentation of the individual working sessions with actors - and a video of the meeting.
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