[rohrpost] Screening: The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Boundaoui, May 5, 7:30pm

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear all,

following our 29th conference "Smart Prison: Tracking, Monitoring &
Control", we invite you to join us on May 5 at 7.30 pm for the screening
of "The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui, at ACUD MACHT NEU
in Berlin.

“The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui explores the impact of
surveillance on Muslim-American communities in the wake of the War on
Terror, and raises important questions about privacy, security, and
civil liberties.

In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director
Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been
under surveillance for over a  decade. While investigating their
experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents
that prove her hometown was the  subject of one of the largest
counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11,
code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The
Feeling of Being Watched  weaves the personal and the political as it
follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under
blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the
government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal
court to compel them to make the records they collected about her
community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about
the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched
follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while
grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and
her family.

AFTER THE SCREENING, we invite you to network over drinks at ACUD MACHT
NEU, in Berlin-Mitte. This will be an opportunity to connect with others
who are interested in the intersection of technology and criminal
justice reform, and to share your own insights and perspectives.

Please register here (5 Euro ticket):
https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/smartprisons-meetup/

More info:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/meet-up-screening-of-the-feeling-of-being-watched

Official website:
http://www.feelingofbeingwatched.com/

See you there,

Tatiana

-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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