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All Light, Everywhere

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ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
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All Light, Everywhere poses thought-provoking questions about our view of objective reality -- and the implications for our growing reliance on surveillance technology.

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Edward Porter Times (UK) The actual stuff the film sees, however, is pretty interesting. Rated: 3/5 Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) While it doesn’t quite cohere into a neat central thesis, the film did leave me with both the means and the inclination to do some further thinking on the subject. Rated: 4/5 Jul 24, 2022 Full Review Phuong Le Guardian While the effort put into research for this documentary is commendable, ultimately the aestheticisation of the information dampens its impact. Rated: 3/5 Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Greg Carlson Vague Visages All Light, Everywhere succeeds on the basis of Anthony’s editorial choices; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which by themselves constitute several chapters or mini-documentaries capable of dropping one’s jar. Jul 28, 2023 Full Review Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine Anthony brings a lot of intriguing ideas into play about vision, technology, and how the two have tangled in myriad ways throughout the centuries, often with weaponry and state control involved in troubling ways. Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Christopher Machell CineVue Combining hallucinatory and often abstract visuals, history, and conventional fly-on-the-wall filmmaking, All Light, Everywhere is a fascinating experiment in documentary form. Rated: 5/5 Jul 25, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dsis1 While they covered some interesting material, it was a bit of an in cohesive mess. It seemed that they were trying so hard to make an "artistic film" that they sacrificed actually going anywhere. We almost left during it a few times, but kept hoping it was going to come to some real point or conclusions. Other than esoteric statements, it never did. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/26/21 Full Review Ravenswood R Dull and unfocused doc that would have benefited from a lot more thought and effort in writing, editing, and filming. Seems like more was planned or should have been included, but they spent their budget on filming a couple of things, and didn't have enough left to film or research anything else. Interesting topics and historical events are introduced, then dropped and we go back to the two central parts which are following a salesman around his company, and a police training session where 15 minutes of this film are devoted to officers being shown how to turn a camera on and off. Needed research, ideas, and something to say about the topics chosen. 20% of this is interesting, the rest is not. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/24/24 Full Review Ethan T A masterful smorgasbord of phenomenology, human biases, police technology and the act of recording. The presentation is slick and smooth, allowing the audience to easily comprehend the numerous concepts and explorations that the director tackles. The score by Dan Deacon is amazing and adds to the artful nature of the documentary. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/18/22 Full Review shane d A well constructed and interesting documentary spoilt by inexperienced, borderline unprofessional camerawork. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting aspects, but very disjointed. Written "narration" portions were odd and poorly done. Too much time on axon body cams. Other portions poorly edited which wasted lots of time. Overall, probably not worth it and can get better evaluation of these topics in 15min on a show like 60 minutes, instead of 2 hours spent on this documentary…. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review dave d All Light, Everywhere is the second documentary feature film from Theo Anthony, but it is muddled despite being informative. Anthony takes a both sides approach, but too many subplots confuse the story. When the film is focused on how the cameras effect police officers and the people whom the police interact it's best. Then in the epilogue the filmmaker shows scenes that were cut and says this was a big part of the film until it wasn't. Yikes. Anthony the director needs to fire Anthony the editor and go back and take another pass at his footage with somebody else! Final Score: 4/10 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
Director
Theo Anthony
Producer
Jonna McKone, Sebastian Pardo, Riel Roch-Decter
Screenwriter
Theo Anthony
Distributor
Super LTD
Production Co
Sandbox Films, Nice Shoes, Memory
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 4, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 31, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA)
$37.3K
Runtime
1h 45m
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