What is an objective point of view? Sundance doc ‘All Light, Everywhere’ provides thought-provoking answers.
Filmmaker Theo Anthony examines the complex web of cameras, policing, and justice in the thought-provoking documentary ‘All Light, Everywhere.’
A documentary that begins with an intimate view of the human optic nerve and shifts towards discussions on the transits of Venus across the Sun and nineteenth-century photography inventions like The Photographic Rifle is guaranteed to inspire new ideas. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ lands in the growing non-fiction genre of films about data, identity, privacy, and social justice; filmmaker and editor Theo Anthony tells a complex story of body cameras, policing, and community in the risk-taking and thought-provoking documentary ‘All Light, Everywhere.’
Making its premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the all-digital Sundance Film Festival 2021 and winner of a Special Jury Prize for Nonfiction Experimentation, ‘All Light, Everywhere,’ challenges audiences to take a sprawling journey from the Scottsdale, Arizona headquarters of Axon Enterprise, a manufacturer of technology and weapons products, to the training rooms at the Baltimore Police Department, a sizable Axon customer. Anthony asks a lot of his audience, but the film rewards with unique visual storytelling and an innovative look at police…
