WATERVILLE — The Maine Film Center is scheduled to conclude its fall series, “Cinema in Conversation: Films of Freedom, Captivity, and Human Rights,” with a screening of the documentary “All Light, Everywhere” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16.
The showing, to take place at Railroad Square Cinema, 17 Railroad Square, will be followed by a Q&A with producer Jonna McKone.
The film is free and open to the public.
McKone, originally from Maryland, graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick. She is a photographer, producer and independent filmmaker whose work focuses on landscape and nature as a way to explore power imbalances.
“All Light, Everywhere,” her first feature film, won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
According to a news release from the center, “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.
The film touches “on every significant cultural, technological, and philosophical aspect of surveillance, including how easy it is for tech that is theoretically objective, detached, logical, and so forth, to be manipulated, abused, and withheld; and how people’s biases and cultural conditioning affect how they interpret the data they’re looking at, whether it’s satellite images of inner-city neighborhoods or body camera footage of a police confrontation with a citizen,” according to Matt Zoller Seitz, rogerebert.com.
“Cinema in Conversation” is sponsored by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities, Oak Institute for Human Rights, and Colby Cinema Studies.
For more information, visit mainefilmcenter.org.
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