FILM LIST BY DIETMAR KAMMERER

Berlin based Dietmar Kammerer, cultural anthropologist, film critic and philosopher has compiled an extensive and annotated list of surveillance feature films (pdf).

It contains films from 1956’s “1984” to the classic “Dr Mabuse” (1960), from the absurd “Brazil”(1985) to the mainstream “Sneakers” (1992), from De Palma’s “Blowout” (1981) to Antonioni’s “Blow-up” (1966) – films from early as 1927  – “Metropolis” – to the latest Hollywood hits.

THE SURPRISE PROJECT

The Surprise Project (EU fp7) has produced a couple of films on subjects covering smart cameras, deep packet inspection or smart phone tracking.

TRANSPARENT LIVES

Canadian surveillance scholars have released a statement on mass surveillance – read more under  Transparent Lives or watch it as a film.

CROSS-CUT by DREW MORTON

Explore the narrative, stylistic, and thematic connections between Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION, and Brian De Palma’s BLOW OUT with this video essay entitled “Cross-Cut.”

SCREENING SURVEILLANCE

Screening Surveillance is a short film series created by sava saheli singh that speculates surveillance futures and aims to raise awareness about how large organizations use data by highlighting how these practices might affect everyday life.