Your phone just listened to this. Probably.
Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convenient digital world! Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media postings? Don't we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique charming and curious way filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world to explore the "brave new world" of total control. EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL by Werner Boote (Plastic Planet, Population Boom) - an evocative film about the self-evidence of surveillance. In cinemas 25th of December 2015.
Direction
Boote's affable everyman approach disarms before it alarms.
Writing
Rare documentary that asks why we stopped caring.
Director
Werner Boote
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Boote financed this through a unique crowdsourcing model where backers received 'data dividends' — a meta-commentary on the film's subject.
Released months before Snowden's second wave of leaks, the film anticipated 2016's global reckoning with Cambridge Analytica and election manipulation.
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