Future Movement Future
- REJECTED
HD, 9'39", 2021.
For Surveillance & Society journal
vol. 19 No. 4 (2021): Imagining Surveillance Futures
In
a not too distant future, an anonymous researcher and their team applied for
funding to develop their newest invention: a new algorithmic model for smart
cameras which would allow to analyze the movement of cars at a previously
unheard-of scale.
This system was said to enable new forms of predictive capabilities to emerge: the algorithm would be able to, for example, predict the route drivers wanted to take but had not yet taken – including, for example, their occult inner desires for getting away with a secret lover.
A panel of academic reviewers from three different universities audited and reviewed the proposed system. All that is left are segments of the video-report resulting from this meeting, which became an urban legend among technology researchers.
The short film “Future Movement Future – REJECTED” is the story of a dystopian surveillance future that was barred by institutional refusal.
Voices of the reviewers:
Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge
Cláudio Pereira (Federal University of Bahia)
Rodrigo Ochigame (Leiden University)
Screenplay, direction: Bruno Moreschi & Gabriel Pereira
Image research: Pedro Gallego, Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira
Editing, animation: Pedro Gallego
Graphic design: Guilherne Falcão
Sound design: David Menezes
This system was said to enable new forms of predictive capabilities to emerge: the algorithm would be able to, for example, predict the route drivers wanted to take but had not yet taken – including, for example, their occult inner desires for getting away with a secret lover.
A panel of academic reviewers from three different universities audited and reviewed the proposed system. All that is left are segments of the video-report resulting from this meeting, which became an urban legend among technology researchers.
The short film “Future Movement Future – REJECTED” is the story of a dystopian surveillance future that was barred by institutional refusal.
Voices of the reviewers:
Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge
Cláudio Pereira (Federal University of Bahia)
Rodrigo Ochigame (Leiden University)
Screenplay, direction: Bruno Moreschi & Gabriel Pereira
Image research: Pedro Gallego, Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira
Editing, animation: Pedro Gallego
Graphic design: Guilherne Falcão
Sound design: David Menezes
movie stills.