(I posted this here to General rather than Entertainment because I'm interested in how the increasingly ubiquitous use of closed circuit television for "security" purposes could influence our society and culture.
Movie makes director star of CCTV
An Austrian filmmaker has come up with a novel way of avoiding the costs of creating a movie - by making her film entirely from images of real life captured by CCTV cameras.
Called Faceless, the film is the project of London-based Manu Luksch, who is both the star and director and describes it as a "science fiction fairy tale".
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"We're being filmed all the time, in all sorts of situations, by CCTV cameras," Ms Luksch told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme.
"As a filmmaker, I was really questioning myself - where I should bring in my own camera.
"I found out that under the Data Protection Act (DPA), one has the right to retrieve data which is held upon oneself. This does not only apply to medical and financial data, but also to CCTV images."
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