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Smart Controlled - ENG

The Smart Control Room in Venice has been financed with funds from the European Cohesion Policy, the largest wealth redistribution policy in Europe, designed to combat inequality, improve living conditions in areas of lesser development, and strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion. But is this what the Smart Control Room does? Is it really a help for all the people who live in Venice and for the city?
And then, from 25 April 2024 in Venice you pay an access fee and you have to book to enter the city. How are the two things connected?

  • Fulvio Nebbia
    Director
  • Alberto Puliafito
    Director
  • Fulvio Nebbia
    Writer
  • Alberto Puliafito
    Writer
  • Fulvio Nebbia
    Producer
  • Alberto Puliafito
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    53 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 22, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.90
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Youtube

    April 22, 2024
    Youtube
Distribution Information
  • Slow News
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Fulvio Nebbia, Alberto Puliafito

FULVIO NEBBIA was born in 1978 in Turin. Screenwriter, director and producer, in 2007 he founded, together with Alberto Puliafito, IK Produzioni, with which he produced the documentaries Harmattan, Comando e Controllo and Slow News and directed the stop-motion animation series Favole dal Mondo Nuovo and the webseries comedy La Smonta, a satire of Italian journalism. He is the author of the science fiction graphic novel Entangled, published by Slow News in 2022.

ALBERTO PULIAFITO is a filmmaker, journalist, author, trainer, media analyst and producer. He has worked for Google, training thousands of journalists on digital. He was Editor-in-Chief of Blogo.it for four years. He has directed documentaries, video clips and TV programmes and has worked with content in all formats and their distribution for over twenty years. He founded the production company IK Produzioni and the online publication Slow News, the first slow journalism project in Italy.

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Director Statement

"Smart Controlled" is a documentary about how, through smart cities, the conflict between control and freedom, efficiency and surveillance can become ever greater to the point of becoming a danger to people.

Are smart cities a system for making cities more efficient or a potential vector of attack on freedom?
Are people's aggregated mobility data really anonymous? Who can see it, who can use it, with what level of detail? And what happens if I disable the geolocation of my phone?

Venice is an emblematic case of all this: we went into the Smart Control Room, saw it in operation, had it explain to us what data it collects. Then we started to study the pros and cons, we listened to the voices of activists and people who live in Venice. And we asked ourselves a lot of questions. Then we started asking them around and looking for answers.