David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear, a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.
Direction
Self-aware meta-doc structure.
Editing
Tension-building that mocks thriller tropes.
Writing
Wry narration undercutting own paranoia.
Director
David Bond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Snowden artifact: released two years before NSA revelations made this conversation mainstream. Almost quaint now.
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