By Naman Ramachandran
Venice safety: security and entrance fees to combat overtourism
Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in his latest feature film, Stranger Eyes, which is competing for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival.
Following a couple grappling with the disappearance of their baby and the discovery of disturbing surveillance footage, the film explores the psychological toll of constant surveillance in an increasingly interconnected world.
Yeo, whose previous film, “A Land Imagined,” won the Golden Leopard at Locarno, sees “Stranger Eyes” as part of cinema’s longstanding fascination with voyeurism. “Perhaps because of an obsession with seeing itself, I think cinema has always been fixated on the idea of the voyeur and we have many examples of that in film history, from Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ to Haneke and Lynch,” Yeo tells Variety.
