In August VPRO starts with an ”s privacy’ new program: Super Stream Me . Tim den Besten and Nicholas Veul allow themselves three weeks to register a live and broadcast without censorship, flips or assembly. Then a documentary series about how they have experienced that follows. Den Besten Super Stream Me and how far should reach the role of social media.
After Big Brother, The Bus, The Golden Cage and Utopia we thought we had everything it had. Why do this?
“This must be because we are all around us, from your friends to your mother and I know who else, see working with social media . It’s about likes and post pictures and taking ever more violent forms. We notice that we ourselves be dragged into. That second world is as important to be as real life. That resulted in this project, which we exaggerate everything really, the book The Circle by Dave Eggers in mind. “
Is the social media impact so seriously, because you still chooses for himself?
“Is it a choice? The world is moving so that social media have now become an essential part of our society. Whether that’s scary that we want to investigate. Nicholas thinks so, he is more cautious but for me that is not so. I do not know better and have never done anything else. Anyway, people can talk to, if that does not happen. Blurring the boundaries. A friend of mine is a doctor and never engaged in this kind of thing, until she recently said: “I posted the same photo as you, and you’ll get a lot of likes and I but three. Then I thought: wow … someone that I did not expect this at all. Social media is like an oil slick that spreads. “
Will we see you soon live on the toilet a number-2 do?
“Probably, maybe not the requirement itself but the toilet and shower are not shielded. We constantly carry cameras on our body and never go into the house where we live hang everywhere cameras. There were friends who indicated that they did not want to be part of it. That is also interesting: what it does to your environment? Compare it to a restaurant if the waiter comes, you usually just stop talking, because otherwise feel crazy. But in our case, the people who live watch too even react. “
How far can we go with this bizarre voyeurism, it is becoming more extreme?
“I think more and more developments are available to anyone with the advent of new technology, and I do not know where it ends. For now the end is nowhere in sight. In Korea, for example, it is quite normal that people are familiar with each other in a home and are streamed continuously. We are running behind them, so if we want to know what our future looks like or stop we must look to Asia. “
Where is the limit for you then?
“For me it means that I want to try new things, to be thrown in the deep end and then make a film or documentary, as I did with Oudtopia and A Man Does not Know What He Mist. People think we do crazy impulsive things but I’m not going to happen overnight. We think about it for months. “
And what you do is then justified by the message that you have?
” On the one hand I think what can these social media well for evil but on the other hand, I see the impact and it goes to some really very far. It affects our lives more than ever and this trend is something even scientists are increasingly worried about it. What we do is an extreme example but hopefully people can then think about it or learn from it. “
What do you think of what you do colleagues at Rambam is that standard?
“I think it’s a very nice program, she maps usually good topics, but I sometimes have the feeling that I get tricked as viewer. That excess is discussed beforehand by the editors what they do. Yet, what they do with a hidden camera is often very exciting. Can they do it again and again. “
Is not a place for you?
No, I am now very busy with our children include Beestieboys and Super Stream Me. Later I also prefer to own programs, stay with Nicholas
Photo above article:. VPRO with Tim right and left Nicholas
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