THEME EXPLORATION

mass surveillance

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
The State I Am In
The State I Am In
2001 · Christian Petzold
Obituary for a Murderer
Obituary for a Murderer
1991 · Michael Haneke
The Third Generation
The Third Generation
1979 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will
1935 · Leni Riefenstahl
Police Adjective
Police Adjective
2009 · Corneliu Porumboiu
The Conversation
The Conversation
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola
Ten Years Thailand
Ten Years Thailand
2018 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Spectre
Spectre
2015 · Sam Mendes
The Mirror
The Mirror
1975 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Rear Window
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
Wuyong
Wuyong
2007 · Jia Zhangke
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Germany

His masterpiece 'The Lives of Others' is a profound meditation on state surveillance in East Germany, exploring how constant monitoring corrupts both observer and observed.

 David Cronenberg Canada

Films like 'Videodrome' and 'eXistenZ' examine how technology and media create new forms of bodily and psychological surveillance in contemporary society.