Screening Surveillance

A video essay on surveillance in Hollywood from Charlie Chaplin to Edward Snowden

  • Steve Anderson
    Director
  • Steve Anderson
    Writer
  • Steve Anderson
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 22, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Paratissima Film Festival
    Skopje
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    September 20, 2016
    Balkan premiere
Director Biography - Steve Anderson

Steve F. Anderson is a filmmaker, media artist, curator and writer working at the intersection of media, history and technology. A former documentary film and sound editor for National Geographic and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Steve founded the public media archive Critical Commons in 2008 to support the transformative use of media by artists and educators. He has written or edited books on media historiography, technologies of vision and popular documentary. An award-winning media artist, his work has been exhibited in the US and abroad, most recently at the 2021 Beijing Film Festival. His video essays have appeared in InTransition, American Literature, Visible Language, Screening Scholarship, and the Paratissima Film Festival. He received an MFA from CalArts and currently teaches documentary and digital media arts in the Film School at UCLA.

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