Movie Details
Original Language:Czech
Production Companies:FAMU, Duracfilm, Reel Illusion
Cast & Crew
M
Michail Trepashkin
P
Pierre Martinet
In Sight
StarringMichail TrepashkinPierre Martinet
DirectorAndrea Slováková
Watch on Pluto TV42 minDocumentary
Plot
In the second half of the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham designed the model of a panopticon, a type of building that made supervision most effective. Panopticons were firstly used for prisons, places where supervision and punishment are the main functions. Secret services but also different surveillance technologies are the new panopticons. They can monitor, save and store data about people to identify them, to distinguish the location and time of people’s behaviour and actions. Architecture theorist, software expert, people who are or were monitored, or the former secret service agents explain their panoptical experience. Reading again Michel Foucault´s Discipline and Punish, through experience with different kinds of supervision, in the film we are looking for the perfect application of the panoptical principle.
