Films by Jürg Neuenschwander

Switzerland, Germany 2011, 52 min
by Walter Brun, Dagmar Brendecke

We live in an age of cities. Cities become bigger cities, and eventually mega-cities. Security always means security of the public space. Cameras, sensors and computers should make this security possible, by observing every step we take and by paying attention to the 'divergence from the norm'. But who has access to all this data? Stephen Graham, author of 'Cities, War and Terrorism', can see a data tsunami coming our way, a second, digitally captured city, existing in parallel to our 'real' wo