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Theo Anthony's Sundance award winner ties together many disparate threads about vision, policing, surveillance, and subjectivity, but only succeeds on the strength of its material.
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
St Louis mulls the promise and perils of aerial surveillance economist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from economist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What are the limits to police surveillance of those suspected of no crime? A federal appeals court is set to weigh in on that question next month as it considers the constitutionality of an aerial surveillance pilot program conducted last year over Baltimore.Â
From May through October last year, the Aerial Investigation Research program deployed an airplane equipped with high-resolution, wide-angle cameras to capture footage of 32 square miles of the city. Software pairs this footage with data from ground-based security cameras, license-plate readers, and gunfire detectors to monitor peopleâs movements. Â
Why We Wrote This
Aerial surveillance is nothing new, and neither are terrestrial cameras. But when Big Data stitches their feeds together and analyses them, it can reveal more than people might expect.