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Under Watchful Eyes
4 films
Big Brother is watching. As AI and militarised technologies become ever more pervasive, we find ourselves surrounded by watchful eyes. The essay films in this thread examine the technologies that observe, classify, and control our everyday lives, asking how new ways of seeing are also becoming new ways of watching, and what this means for how we move through, understand, and are understood by the world.
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A collage of American rituals and spectacles reveals the contradictions and costs behind the ideals of freedom, heroism, and patriotism.
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A series of performances reconstructing the data collection processes behind AI models that detect emotions, even micro-expressions and deceptive attempts to conceal them.
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Thread Under Watchful Eyes
Their Eyes
Behind the vision of self-driving cars lies a hidden, exploited workforce from the Global South who analyse, tag, and map a world which they themselves are excluded from.
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A night-time horror portrait of suburban America, where neon and artificial lighting carve out simulated safety and convenience, held together by hovering surveillance.
