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Surveillance Culture Examined in Venice Contender ‘Stranger Eyes’: ‘We Are Starting to Live Our Lives as Images for Others’
Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in 'Stranger Eyes,' vying for the Golden Lion at Venice.
Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in his latest feature, ” Stranger Eyes,” which is vying for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Yeo, whose previous film, “A Land Imagined,” won the Golden Leopard at Locarno, sees “Stranger Eyes” as part of cinema’s long-standing fascination with voyeurism. “Maybe because of an obsession to see itself, I think cinema has always been fixated about idea of the voyeur and we have many examples of that throughout film history, from Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ to Haneke and Lynch,” Yeo tells Variety.
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