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Dina Foxx – Creation & Development

Since a lot of people keep asking me how Dina Foxx actually came about – here is a more detailed chronology:

Rescue Dina Foxx! went through three development stages:

1. A talk in the mountains and a digital doppelganger:
It all started in the middle of 2005 with a discussion with our friend Dinah Flusser (daughter of philosopher Vilem Flusser) in the bavarian country-side, the Osterbuchberg. Walking through the green hills we speculated about a very simple guy who has never done anything wrong in his life but who would suddenly be targeted by digital profiling software and then be arrested as a terrorist. He should be called George, Dinah said. “And he should be christian!” So the next three years I spent writing various proposals for films called “Being George”. They went from a pure documentary format to fictional documentary to near-science fiction feature-format (taking place in 2020) about George being “hunted” by–what i called–a “digital doppelganger” and back to a documentary format (leaving out all the expensive parts!) including discussions on the web with IT-experts about a digital doppelganger. In the near-future scenario, George was supposed to be Boss of an IT-company (the likes of google)… and the company had developed a digital doppelgänger system to manipulate people in all fields of their lives. And George would become a victim of his own system because–it would get “hijacked” by a group of mean people.

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Pikler DVDs

We worked on four DVD’s about Emmi Pikler’s pedagogical approach to babies and small children. The DVD’s are mainly aimed at professional child carers….