All Light, Everywhere

Film - 2021

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All Light, Everywhere it's a movie with Theo Anthony, Keaver Brenai Full cast. Directed by Theo Anthony. Original title All Light, Everywhere, runtime 109 minutes. Genre Documentary.

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Riccardo Simoncini

Theo Anthony's great new documentary returns to his now consolidated methodological approach that works through juxtapositions, where the simple juxtaposition of images allows the mysteries hidden in the invisible connections between things to be revealed. That implicit bond which, transcending time, allows us to access a dimension that is gradually more and more ambiguous, but inexplicably almost perfect. If in his debut 'Rat Film' he started from rats to tell about spaces, borders, real or virtual places in which to be segregated, here the reflection starts from looking, in all its infinite declinations (with the consequent and problematic ethical-social implications). What are we looking at? But above all, is what we watch real, true, objective? Where are the boundaries of the image, of what is there compared to what remains outside? And can technology in this sense help to broaden the possibilities of looking? The themes are always the same ones dear to Anthony: the illusion of truth, the historical anniversary, the city of Baltimore, its hierarchies, the extravagant solutions to arrive at eradicate social evils. But the editing always curated by the same director creates an irresistible and pressing rhythm in a completely new way, making even more enlightening the reflections yet to be discovered that emerge through juxtaposition, between historical data, police training sessions for bodycams, interviews with video surveillance technicians or hilarious entrepreneurs who produce those same bodycams that we see in action. "The eye sees in everything only what it seeks, and seeks only what it already has an idea of." That is, when we look and decipher the we never do it with respect to what really exists before our eyes, but based on the idea that guides our perception (and which will therefore be distorted). In one of the many examples, the policemen's bodycams (which should in theory be created to provide Read all

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Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.