Description: Screening Surveillance
The invasive surveillance apparatus we find embedded in almost all aspects of our technologically mediated lives collects and analyzes personal information which is then used by organizations to produce various outcomes that are often out of our control. Surveillance is not simply good or bad, helpful or harmful, but it is never neutral, and it is increasingly at the core of larger systems of control. Screening Surveillance is a short film series created by sava saheli singh that aims to raise awareness abo
Speculative surveillance is an effective way to highlight the potential harms of invisible surveillance systems and these short films speculate surveillance futures and the effects of deeply embedded and connected surveillant systems on our everyday lives. The films were produced with support from and in collaboration with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, and the eQuality Project and the AI+Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa. Intended as public education resources to spark
Each film raises issues in our understandings of trust and surveilled relations: