12 degrees
In the year 2012 there has been a backlash against Patriot Act era policies and a series of investigations reveal just how rampant surveillance on ordinary citizens had become. After the Dept of Homeland Security is abolished, a hacker gets into databases from 2008 and discovers 1,000′s of hours of surveillance footage which he decides to release online. He narrates the short videos and sometimes even remixes them and they become the most watched show in the US. His narration offers commentary on our times from the perspective of an optimistic future that sees our current society as troubled and bleak. The videos will incorporate current events as they occur, including the Presidential election cycle as seen from the eyes of the future. As more videos are released, we come to see that the seemingly unrelated characters from throughout the world are interconnected…
