Apologies. I see now that Truman Show was just mentioned.
On 4 Nov 2009, at 20:51, David Murakami Wood wrote:
> A few that haven't been mentioned yet, probably because they hover
> at the edges of being about either conspiracy and paranoia, or
> reality TV, rather than surveillance:
>
> Ed TV (came out around the same time as The Truman Show and has
> similar themes)
>
> Series 7: The Contenders (the funniest film about reality TV,
> like... ever)
>
> The Conversation and Blow-Up are just as much about paranoia as
> surveillance (an under-explored link - see David Harper's excellent
> piece on Surveillance and Paranoia in S&S from last year and there
> will be another article on the same theme in the forthcoming open
> issue). In that light, why not include things like All the
> President's Men and The Parrallax View?
>
> They Live (John Carpenter's gonzo 'none of it's real' movie, in
> whichaliens are secretly ruling the world and watching everything we
> do, waybefore The Matrix)
>
> Or indeed, The Matrix and Dark City?
>
> And do you include espionage films? After all, there are plenty of
> spy thrillers that involve strong surveillance elements.
>
> David.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rodrigo Firmino <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 14:25
> Subject: Re: Your favourite surveillance films?
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> > Kirstie,
> >
> > Would mind making your compilation available to everyone in the
> > list? I am
> > very interested too.
> > And here is another one:
> > Prison Images by Haroun Farouki - http://www.farocki-film.de
> > "A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from
> > fiction films and
> > documentaries as well as footage from surveillance
> > cameras. A look at the
> > new control technologies, at personal identification
> > devices, electronic
> > ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices. The cinema has
> > always been
> > attracted to prisons. Today's prisons are full of video surveillance
> > cameras. These images are unedited and monotonous; as
> > neither time nor
> > space is compressed, they are particularly well-suited to
> > conveying the
> > state of inactivity into which prisoners are placed as a
> > punitive measure.
> > The surveillance cameras show the norm and reckon with
> > deviations from it.
> > Clips from films by Genet and Bresson. Here the prison
> > appears as a site of
> > sexual infraction, a site where human beings must create
> > themselves as
> > people and as a workers. In Un Chant d'amour by Jean
> > Genet, the guard looks
> > in on inmates in their cells and sees them masturbating.
> > The inmates are
> > aware that they are being watched and thus become
> > performers in a peep
> > show. The protagonist in Bresson's Un Condamné à mort s'est
> > échappé turns
> > the objects of imprisonment into the tools of his escape. These
> topoi
> > appear in many prison films. In newer prisons, in contrast,
> > contemporaryvideo surveillance technology aims at
> > demystification. (Harun Farocki)"
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rodrigo.
> >
> >
> > On 04/11/09 14:14, "K.S.Ball" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone
> > > I¹m trying to compile a list of surveillance films for the SSN
> > website (among
> > > other things).
> > > So, what are your favourite surveillance films? ŒThe Lives of
> > Others¹ wins
> > > hands down for me! Enemy of the State and The Matrix (the
> > first one) are
> > > Hollywood¹s best contributionsŠbut anyone who knows me will
> > realize that film
> > > isn¹t my strong point.
> > > Apols if this has been done before on the list but I had a
> > quick search in our
> > > archives and couldn¹t find anything. If you have a favourite
> > documentary (e.g.
> > > Suspect Nation, for example) then please mention that too.
> > > Thanks a lot
> > > Kirstie
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