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15 ott 2018 · Undercover in the Alt-Right: Directed by Bosse Lindquist, Patrik Hermansson. With Patrik Hermansson, Joe Mulhall, Stead Steadman, Jeremy Bedford-Turner. For the past year, our operative Patrik Hermansson has been living undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right.
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- Documentary
- Bosse Lindquist, Patrik Hermansson
- 2018-10-15
26 lug 2019 · The film has already been seen by millions of people having been shown on TV stations in Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Netherlands, Serbia, Belgium, France and Norway. Now it is being made available in the UK and USA, available to rent from Amazon.
This film follows the incredible story of Patrick Hermannson, a young student who goes undercover in the Alt Right to expose how extremists are using social media to organise and build support for their far-right views around the world.
2018 Directed by Bosse Lindquist, Patrik Hermansson. For the past year, our operative Patrik Hermansson has been living undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville 2017.
- Bosse Lindquist, Patrik Hermansson
- Silverfish Films
- Hermansson’S Journey
- The Intersection of Hatred
- Sanctuary in Irony
- Hope
- Conclusion: Undercover in The Alt-Right
Based on what I saw in the slight 52-minute documentary, I’ve come to the conclusion that Hermansson is one of the bravest individuals I’ve ever seen onscreen. A Swedish student with a long-standing interest in anti-fascism, he came into contact with the British organization Hope Not Hate in 2015, and what began as an investigation into the extreme...
Of course, the alt-right are primarily known for their racism and islamophobia, but it is the intersection of their hatred that seems to have made them so pervasive and dangerous. Any kind of deviation from the white, European, gender-conforming model that they slavishly abide to is seen as an aberration, a monstrous development that stands as the ...
In contextualizing the recent growth of this hate movement, Undercover In The Alt-Rightputs forward the idea that the internet is what has allowed fringe groups of disturbed, ignorant individuals to become an organised whole under the ‘alt-right’ umbrella. But along with this, a fresher, more intriguing point is made: the role that ‘meme-culture’ h...
When the inevitable scene addressing Heather Heyer’s murder arrived, showing shots of a car coldly and systemically mowing down protestors in an act of absolute cruelty, my blood ran cold. Hermansson’sproximity to this event, and our knowledge that he does in fact stand for those being brutalized, both captures the horror of the moment and perfectl...
As one of the most challenging and disturbing films I’ve seen all year, I can’t promote Undercover In The Alt-Right as anything other than essential viewing. In the words of the late Heather Heyer’scover photo on Facebook, ‘if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention’ – as a call to attention, this film is vital, and is incredibly effective...
Summaries. For the past year, our operative Patrik Hermansson has been living undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville 2017.
Undercover in the ALT-Right. Bosse Linquist. 2018. This film is about Patrik and his journey into the heart of darkness. Patrik is a young Swedish guy who has spent a year trying to befriend the Alt-Right and to understand who and what they really are.
