Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.
Direction
Louvet's global scope connects Xinjiang to Nice with terrifying clarity.
Editing
Juxtaposition of smiling tech CEOs with detention camp footage hits hard.
Director
Sylvain Louvet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before COVID-19 contact tracing normalized mass surveillance globally, making its warnings feel almost quaint.
Director Sylvain Louvet was denied entry to China after submitting visa requests for Xinjiang filming; the Uyghur sequences rely on smuggled footage and exiled testimonies.
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