Surveillance Cinema

Surveillance Cinema

10 Episodes

In a world where anyone might, at any moment, be spied on, who can you trust? It’s a fear that cinema, with its inherently voyeuristic nature, taps into with particular potency. Exploring concerns around the erosion of personal privacy, state surveillance, and corporate overreach, these films—which encompass everything from classic conspiracy thrillers (THE ANDERSON TAPES, THE CONVERSATION) to science-fiction mind-benders (GATTACA, MINORITY REPORT) to sly meta-commentaries on the media itself (BODY DOUBLE, THE TRUMAN SHOW)—play upon both our paranoia of being watched and the pleasures of watching.

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Surveillance Cinema

10 Episodes

  • Surveillance Cinema Teaser
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    Surveillance Cinema Teaser
    Episode 1

    Surveillance Cinema Teaser

    Episode 1

  • The Truman Show
    1:42:58
    The Truman Show
    Episode 2

    The Truman Show

    Episode 2

    Directed by Peter Weir • 1998 • United States
    Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris

    An instant classic that anticipated the rise of reality TV, Peter Weir’s brilliantly meta marvel of a movie—part media satire, part thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of consciousness—feature...

  • The Conversation
    1:53:41
    The Conversation
    Episode 3

    The Conversation

    Episode 3

    Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1974 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield

    The ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neonoir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track ...

  • Sliver
    1:46:25
    Sliver
    Episode 4

    Sliver

    Episode 4

    Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1993 • United States
    Starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger

    Adapted by erotic-thriller specialist Joe Eszterhas (BASIC INSTINCT, SHOWGIRLS) from a novel by Ira Levin (ROSEMARY’S BABY, THE STEPFORD WIVES), this sleek, steamy tale of sex, death, and voyeur...

  • The End of Violence
    2:02:00
    The End of Violence
    Episode 5

    The End of Violence

    Episode 5

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 1997 • United States
    Starring Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

    A haunting meditation on the causes and effects of violence in life and art, Wim Wenders’s sprawling meta-commentary on the media and voyeurism unfolds in a paranoid vision of Los Angeles where a...

  • A Scanner Darkly
    1:40:14
    A Scanner Darkly
    Episode 6

    A Scanner Darkly

    Episode 6

    Directed by Richard Linklater • 2006 • United States
    Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson

    In a not-too-distant future where America has lost its “war” on drugs, Fred (Keanu Reeves), an undercover cop obsessed with taking down a notorious drug dealer, is one of many people hooked ...

  • Modern Times
    1:27:16
    Modern Times
    Episode 7

    Modern Times

    Episode 7

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1936 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman

    MODERN TIMES, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette...

  • Camera Buff
    1:53:35
    Camera Buff
    Episode 8

    Camera Buff

    Episode 8

    Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1979 • Poland

    A reflexive meditation on art and documentary and a key film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s career, CAMERA BUFF follows a factory worker's growing obsession with filmmaking after he captures the birth of his daughter on his new 8 mm camera.

  • Death Watch
    2:10:49
    Death Watch
    Episode 9

    Death Watch

    Episode 9

    Directed by Bertrand Tavernier • 1980 • France, West Germany
    Starring Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton

    Part human drama, part sci-fi cautionary tale, Bertrand Tavernier’s DEATH WATCH unfolds in a future where death by disease has become extremely rare. When it is discovered that...

  • Demonlover
    2:01:42
    Demonlover
    Episode 10

    Demonlover

    Episode 10

    Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2002 • France
    Starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny

    “No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don’t understand.” So observes Connie Nielsen in Olivier Assayas’s hallucinatory, globe-spanning DEMONLOVER, a postmodern neonoir thriller and med...

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