Stare Into the Lights My Pretties (2017)
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?
129 min
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.
- Release date
- May 26, 2017
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
- Music
- Ólafur Arnalds, Jordan Brown, Seame Campbell
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'
Crew
- Amy Goodman · Archive footage
- Jordan Brown · Director
- Jordan Brown · Writer
- Ólafur Arnalds · Composer
- Jordan Brown · Composer
- Seame Campbell · Composer
- Chris Clark · Composer
- Jordan Brown · Editor