HACK=KILL Directed by Tarek Strauch

In a world run by scripts, she writes her own.

In a dimly lit room humming with digital tension, a lone figure moves with razor-sharp focus. HACK=KILL is a stark, minimalist documentary that plunges into the aesthetics, ethics, and consequences of digital labor in the shadowy zones of late capitalist media. At its core is a striking sequence: a hypnotic, real-time camera orbit of a hacker — played with meditative intensity by Audrey Biasucci — as she programs the homepage for the underground cinema collective Zelluloid42. Set against the raw, industrial pulse of 1990s cyberpunk sound, the film evokes a haunting sense of techno-alienation and underground resistance. Through a single, virtuosic camera movement, it reframes the act of coding as both choreography and subversion, offering an almost phenomenological gaze on digital production. A meditation on interface, identity, and infrastructure, HACK=KILL is as much an essay as it is a portrait — where hacking becomes cinema, and cinema becomes code.