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Film on the Television (7/13/15): WEB JUNKIE on PBS

Posted By Julius Kassendorf on July 13, 2015 in News | 197 Responses

Documentaries have extraordinarily long journeys. Web Junkie, which airs tonight on PBS, has been making the festival rounds since July 2013. Premiering at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and showing at 2014’s Sundance, Web Junkie is an Israeli-American co-production about China’s official classification of web addiction. Finally, it’s making its way off the festival circuit with a premiere on PBS’ POV, a series that focuses on documentaries without a PBS origin.

2014’s Sundance had a pair of Asian internet addiction documentaries. Web Junkie, and Love Child. Love Child followed the aftermath of a poor South Korean couple who were addicted to an online MMO video game and neglected their baby for hours at a time. The baby eventually died as both of them were at an internet cafe around the street. Web Junkie seems to be the natural follow up to that, following three Chinese youth legally declared to be addicted to the internet and force to go through a rehabilitation program. Where Love Child used its case as evidence that web addiction is a reality, Web Junkie acknowledges that the categorization of web addiction in China might be at the behest of a Communist government intent on keeping their youth employed and hard at work.

This year’s POV series has been stellar. With the premiere of blair dolosh-walther’s Out in the Night, a searing profile on a media circus that uses multiple forms of discrimination against a group of young black gay women to railroad them into jail, and Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, about an untrustworthy pastor who shelters a bunch of homeless shiftless people at his church, POV has been shining its light in compelling and complicated stories about our life and reality. The premiere of Web Junkie keeps this series one of the must watch shows of the summer.

Posted in News | Tagged Documentary, Film on the Television, Hilla Medalia, internet, Shosh Shlam, Web Junkie

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Julius Kassendorf

Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. There, he dabbled in form within reviews to better textualize thought processes about the medium of film.

Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community.

Julius’ commanding rule about film: Don’t Be Common. He believes the worst thing in the world is for a film to be like every other film, with a secondary crime of being a film with little to no ambition.

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