Focus #4 - « Fog makes revolt possible »

Between hijacking and biometric hacking, the films in this session blur the lines of individual surveillance by attempting to make faces - or their absence - our weapons.

From the silence of a clinical inspection of contemporary suburbs to the observation of menstrual cycles via the telephone, a new kind of horrific film takes shape, where control is total.

They also bear witness to the stagnant normalization of collective surveillance, a state trap that feeds a protean, faceless fear of the “other”.

In Selfie, the body is also probed, but the surveillance can be reversed! If “No one is safe in a police state”, let’s keep trying to infiltrate these technologies to thwart the gaze that squares us.

Between hijacking and biometric hacking, the films in this session blur the lines of individual surveillance by attempting to make faces - or their absence - our weapons.

From the silence of a clinical inspection of contemporary suburbs to the observation of menstrual cycles via the telephone, a new kind of horrific film takes shape, where control is total.

They also bear witness to the stagnant normalization of collective surveillance, a state trap that feeds a protean, faceless fear of the “other”.