All Light, Everywhere Review: Fascinating, Fraught and Sinister Essay on the Unreliability of the Image All Light, Everywhere Review: Fascinating, Fraught and Sinister Essay on the Unreliability of the Image
Surveillance, policing and spy pigeons figure into a chillingly insightful doc on the ethics of looking and the incompleteness of seeing.
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A highly persuasive film about how we should be wary of film’s power to persuade, Theo Anthony’s discursive and disturbing “All Light, Everywhere” is a superb if sinister example of how the outwardly modest essay format can deploy arguments that challenge us to unpick our most basic assumptions. Here, it’s the idea that a thing and its recorded image can never have a 1:1 relationship: It’s not just that our eyes deceive us, it’s that we’re conditioned to accept the representations of those deceptions as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the t