Eko and five other analysts work at the Dutch Pornography Reporting Centre reviewing material provided to it through a national hotline.
Eko is the longest serving analyst with four years experience and has removed some 200,000 offensive online videos and pictures.
Viewers spend 15 minutes watching Eko at work commenting to the camera what he is watching, categorizing and reporting to law enforcement.
The impression beyond disgust at hearing what he is viewing and categorizing is the speed and the mechanical nature of his job.
At one point his voice wavers recounting a particularly vile video and it must have been horrific as what he regularly views involve children as young as one and two some even professionally produced or photographed.
His coping mechanism is the diversion of taking breaks, listening to music or checking his e-mail and texts.
We are all aware of child pornography but the documentary illustrates its pervasive and commercial reach and an attempt to curb it. What Eko and his colleagues deal with is only the 500,000 reported photos and videos reported to the Dutch Pornography Reporting Centre yearly. How many unreported photos and videos are circulating?
The documentary provides a glimpse of the extent of child pornography and one mechanism to “manage” it. Sadly, the extent of it makes its elimination impossible.
This 17-minute Dutch documentary is directed by Jefta Varwijk and Jaap Van Heusden.
RKS 2025 Documentary Film Rating 86/100.
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