In Sundance-wowing documentary All Light, Everywhere, the biases and dangers involved with surveillance and body cams are investigated
In the summer of 2019, Theo Anthony had a strange couple of weeks. ThenPresident
Donald Trump provoked a spat with Baltimore-born congressman Elijah Cummings by calling his city a “disgusting, rat-and-rodent-infested mess”, which led to Anthony’s 2017 documentary Rat Film getting “algorithmically thrown into the mix”, as the director puts it. Viewers of the quasi-experimental examination of how the city’s redistricting affects and oppresses its people understand that Anthony primarily takes the constantly shuffled-around rats as a metaphor for the local government’s callous treatment of its least powerful citizens. Nonetheless, it was adopted as a
Republican talking point from bots to influencers to a tweet from
Donald Trump Jr, and rebranded as an indictment of
Democratic leadership’s filthy, vermin-infested failure.
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