Spy Girls (Estonia) • Vabaduse festival
We live in a world where the sense of security is merely an illusion. Spy girls are exploiting human weaknesses and finding technical loopholes to get the upper hand in this world full of conflict. “Spy Girls” is a combination of investigative journalism, cyber activism and performing arts. Our actors worked undercover for three months as beautiful young women. They opened up fake accounts on a Russian social media site called VKontakte, joined their dating feature Znakomstva and matched with men in uniforms. They catfished soldiers to find out the Russian army’s positions and weaponry.
“Spy Girls” plays with the lines of ethics. How far can we carry our online investigation? Let us show you the personal data that gullible Russian soldiers gave us willingly.
Director: Magda Szpecht (Poland)
Author: Olga Drygas (Poland)
Directors assistent: Michał Rogulski (Poland)
Composer: Krzysztof Kaliski (Poland)
Lighting and video artist: Mikk-Mait Kivi
Set designer: Johannes Valdma
Videographer: Janar Hakk
Sound technician: Raido Linkmann
Stage manager: Marion Tammet
Costume designer: Sirli Pohlak
Producer: Krista Tramberg/Helen Maandi
Subtitler: Triin Pohlak
Cast: Mad Matrixx, Cyber Shadow, Void Vigilante