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All Light, Everywhere

2021

Theo Anthony

Documentary, Self: Keaver Brenai

6.6

178

Documentary Exploration of the shared histories of cameras, guns, police and justice. As surveillance technologies become a ubiquitous element of everyday life, the documentary probes the biases inherent in both human perception and a camera lens. An in-depth study of human biases when analyzing a given situation in a society replete with various methods of surveillance, delving specifically into the use of police body cameras.

	Media	Author	Review
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A provocative look at the connection between modern cameras and weapons of destruction (...) [It] demands viewers get lost in its peculiar wavelength."
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A brilliant and chilling study in watching the watchers."
		Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"It’s essential not because it enrages you with a laundry list of CTA items like a more straightforward issues documentary, but because it forces the viewer to question the veracity of everything that crosses their eyes."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"As 'All Light, Everywhere' builds in cumulative power, the viewer begins to question how little we really understand about all the data that comes to us through sight (...) Few films are so eye-opening.
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"For all its analytical focus and leaps into epistemological abstractions, 'All Light, Everywhere' is a film of individual and immediate fascinations."
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"Fascinating, fraught and sinister essay on the unreliability of the images"
		Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"Overstuffed and ambitious, this documentary claims to be about body cameras but has much bigger targets in its sights (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'All Light, Everywhere' brilliantly interrogates body cameras and the ethics of the surveillance age"
		Phuong Le The Guardian	"Absorbing documentary (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"This challenging, restless documentary on perception bias and surveillance doesn’t always gel but does demand your attention (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"In a manner that is patient — and sometimes even playful — rather than polemical, 'All Light, Everywhere' contributes to debates about crime, policing, racism and accountability"

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