Ulterior States: modern cypherpunks, cryptocurrencies and changing the world through technology. (2015)

Ulterior States A Film By Tomer Kantor - An IamSatoshi Production

Ulterior States, an IamSatoshi production, is an argumentative documentary project. The participatory development, production and post ‘guerilla-film-making-methods’, bounced between (non-academic) literature research, video interviews and studio sessions. This investigative process allowed having real-life conversations with some thought leaders within the Bitcoin ecosystem. In an attempt to portray the community behind the message to adopt a network, being a one-man team allowed for easier access to the subjects. The enthusiasm and commitment that saturate through the lens in many parts of the film, expose how the adopters of Bitcoin want to explore, to probe and, to show the world, something important, otherwise overlooked. The film took three years and 125 videos to complete. Through this journey, I got immersed in the decentralised crypto-currency culture and met a bunch of wonderful futuristic-pirates, I would have never met otherwise. It is becoming easier to admit that Ulterior States is an expression of my perceptions, an extract of the years 2012-2015. The collaged story explores code as activism and discovers a melting pot through the neutrality of a decentralised consensus. It looks to the future from different humanist perspectives and argues that crypto-currencies could lead towards; community governed micro-state applications.

Featuring (alphabetically): Andreas Antonopoulos Julian Assange Jessi Baker Adam Cleary Matt Corallo Sven Desai Kyle Drake Stephen Early Mark Edge Chris Ellis Rick Falkvinge Paul Gordon Ian Grigg Vinay Gupta Jonathan Harrison Daniel Hassan Garrick Hileman Denis Jaromil Roio John Karanja Toni Lane Simon Lelieveldt Nadav Rosenberg Brett Scott Lui Smyth Elizabeth Starks Amir Taaki Robin Teigland Peter Todd Julia Tourianski Sveinn Valfells Erik Voorhees Cody Wilson Titles Design: Louis Chang Poster Design: Ofer Kantor