Stare Into the Lights My Pretties
“A documentary about the world of screens we are immersed in. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next and is it what we want?”
Synopsis
We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next if this culture is left unchecked, to its end trajectory, and is that what we want? Stare Into The Lights My Pretties investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behavior modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleeprunning into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world.
Credits
- Jacob Appelbaumas Self - Computer Security Activist
- Kevin Bankstonas Self - Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Tim Berners Leeas Self - Inventor of the WWW
- William Binneyas Self - Former NSA Technical Director, turned whistleblower
- Nicholas Carras Self - Author of 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains'
- Vint Cerfas Self - Google's Chief 'Internet Evangelist'
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Principal cast & crew: 14
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Edited by Jordan BrownScored by Olafur Arnalds
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Cast & Crew
14 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Jacob Appelbaum
as Self - Computer Security Activist
Kevin Bankston
as Self - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tim Berners Lee
as Self - Inventor of the WWW
William Binney
as Self - Former NSA Technical Director, turned whistleblower
Nicholas Carr
as Self - Author of 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains'
Vint Cerf
as Self - Google's Chief 'Internet Evangelist'
Roger Clarkee
as Self - Public Interest Advocate, Australian Privacy Foundation
Charles Duhigg
as Self - Author of 'The Power of Habit'
Petra Epperlein
as Self - Filmmaker 'Karl Marx City'
Amy Goodman
as Self - Host of DN!
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