Wer an unsichtbare Strahlen, geheime Abhöraktionen und den gläsernen Bürger glaubt, ist paranoid? Das dachte man bisher.

Der Film unternimmt eine Reise zu den Labors und Rüstungsfirmen, die sich mit der Realisierung der einst kühnsten paranoiden Wahnvorstellungen befassen: Strahlenkanonen werden auf Menschenansammlungen gerichtet, Drohnen in Kolibri-Form legen Wanzen in fremden Zimmern ab und die Körpersprache von Passanten wird auf böse Absichten hin untersucht…
Und wir treffen Menschen, die unter solchen Vorstellungen leiden. Dabei wird klar: früher war die paranoische Phantasie der technischen Entwicklung weit voraus, doch inzwischen liegt die Technik uneinholbar vorn.

Ein Film über das Zusammenspiel von Wahnsinn und Methode.

English version

In the past, those who were convinced that they were being pursued by invisible rays or that their telephone conversations were being monitored were considered to be paranoid. Nowadays, people are being monitored as soon as they produce any sign of life. That is just the beginning, however. The research is ongoing and the reality is not far behind.
In his new documentary film, Niels Bolbrinker takes us on a journey into the minds of the clinically paranoid and contrasts their world with that of the scientists, working on surveillance techniques, biomedicine, neuroscience and crowd control. The paranoid have been proclaiming the existence of seemingly fanciful apparatus and models, with remarkable technical detail, for a number of decades. It now turns out that many of their notions had already been subjected to research in the real world. Hence, concepts that had been consigned to the realm of fantasy for many years have now become part of our daily reality. Furthermore, the delusions of the paranoid have, in some cases, long been surpassed by events in the real world.
A film about the interplay between madness and method.