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Relax, Open Your Eyes

Relax, Open Your Eyes dives deep into the world of cryonics with privileged access, as a young family in Western Canada throws themselves fully into building a facility to help them live forever – The Futurist Club.

We follow matriarch Carrie Radomski as she travels across the USA, then to Spain and Switzerland, to research and train with an international web of cryonicists who are trying to hack mortality. We step in the world’s top facilities where hundreds of people (and some pets) are cryogenically frozen, and contemplate the question of whether to freeze just your head or your entire body. We enter cutting edge research centres that are mapping the human brain to attempt an alternative to cryonics, through chemical preservation and mind uploading to the cloud. We travel with Carrie as she trains in medical response protocols and see her beliefs and dedication tested along her journey that spans 3 years.

Carrie’s grassroots mission to build a hometown cryonics centre is driven by her husband’s escalating health problems, a dedication to her ‘forever family’, and growing cryonics community. Carrie and cryonicists at large believe death is an engineering problem to be solved, but the path to solving it tests her closest relationship and threatens to rupture the cryonics community.

Shamed: The Vigilante Suicides

Through its five-year reign, Creeper Hunter TV exposed online over 100 men identifying them as child predators and tossing the suspect’s name and image into a court of public opinion regardless of the evidence. It made for dramatic videos but was ultimately proven ineffective, for only a small percentage of the men accused will see the inside of a courtroom.

At the centre is Jason Nassr, the self-described “Creeper Hunter” from Windsor, Ontario. Nassr maintains he is a journalist and an educator who is motivated by his desire to protect children.

But after the death by suicide of one of Creep Hunter TV ‘catches’, it is Nassr himself who ends up in court where he is tried and convicted of extortion, harassing communications based on his exchange with the deceased man, and making and distributing written child pornography. In Shamed: The Vigilante Suicides, we learn of more untimely deaths and begin to understand the collateral damage caused by Nassr’s extreme form of vigilantism.

Blurring the line between justice and entertainment, Nassr and other vigilantes like him have increasingly become a serious cause for concern for law enforcement and have spawned a dark and committed online fanbase who seem to relish in the shaming and destruction of people.  Encouraged by clicks and likes, the original purpose of protecting children from predators is seemingly lost in the pursuit of increasing the shock value and satisfying the audience.

Since Nassr’s conviction, the Creeper Hunter TV website has been taken down. However, videos can still be found in some dark corners of the net, and many other online vigilantes remain active globally.