In Sight (2011)

In the second half of the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham designed the model of a panopticon, a type of building that made supervision most effective. Panopticons were firstly used for prisons, places where supervision and punishment are the main functions. Secret services but also different surveillance technologies are the new panopticons. They can monitor, save and store data about people to identify them, to distinguish the location and time of people’s behaviour and actions. Architecture theorist, software expert, people who are or were monitored, or the former secret service agents explain their panoptical experience. Reading again Michel Foucault´s Discipline and Punish, through experience with different kinds of supervision, in the film we are looking for the perfect application of the panoptical principle.

Released Nov. 10, 2011 42 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.two-actors, mdblist.imdb-short

Watch Providers: Pluto TV

Production Companies: FAMU, Duracfilm, Reel Illusion

Country: Czech Republic
Production Country: Czech Republic
Languages: English, Slovak, French, Russian, Czech