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A image from a police body camera shows a neighbourhood and a field. There is a police car on the right with a crowd of people nearby.

Caught Live: Body Cams, Surveillance Videos, and the New Era of Found Footage

by Jason Gorber
October 15, 2025
Essays/Features

Documentaries like The Perfect Neighbor and 2000 Meters to Andriivka elevate the found footage genre via body-cams and surveillance videos.

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Coming Soon: Issue #123! (Spring/Summer 2025)

by POV Staff
March 10, 2025March 12, 2025
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Coming soon: POV issue #123 (Spring/Summer 2025) offers highlights from the festival circuit, deep dives on representations of Palestine, VR, body cams, and more!

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Total Trust Review: All Eyes on China in Riveting Doc

by Jason Gorber
May 6, 2023
Hot Docs/Reviews

Jialing Zhang delivers a haunting and vital film that observes the impact of China's surveillance on its own citizens with Total Trust.

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Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Harnessing Nan Goldin’s Fight

by Pat Mullen
December 1, 2022January 31, 2023
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An interview with Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

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Self-Portrait Review: Four Seasons of Surveillance

by Rachel Ho
April 6, 2022
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Joële Walinga's Self-Portrait examines what humans have created on this planet using found surveillance footage and layered soundscapes.

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Against the Polemical: Theo Anthony on ‘All Light Everywhere’

by Jason Gorber
February 9, 2021July 28, 2021
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Much of 2020 was shaped by moments captured via cellphone in which police officers were seen leaning on the neck of George Floyd as he gasped for air. This brutal act of

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TIFF 2020: Enemies of the State Review

by Pat Mullen
September 12, 2020August 14, 2021
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One unexpected twist anticipates another in Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State. The film is a jaw-dropper of a wild-but-true tale that leaves a viewer guessing.

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Review: ‘Dragonfly Eyes’

by Daniel Glassman
September 12, 2017October 24, 2021
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Dragonfly Eyes (China/USA, 81 min.) Dir. Xu Bing Programme: Wavelengths (North American Premiere)   Xu Bing is a Chinese artist of Ai Weiwei’s vintage—they were even roommates in New York—whose most famous

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