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All Light, Everywhere Friday 2 July, 7.30pm - 10.30pm
 

Join us for the Open Air Premiere of Theo Anthony’s award winning documentary All Light, Everywhere (Sundance 2021, non-fiction experimentation) atop Bidston Hill. All Light, Everywhere (2021) explores the personal and philosophical relationships between cameras and weaponry. Once again, as in his acclaimed debut feature RAT FILM, director Theo Anthony roots his inquiry in Baltimore, a city that has long been a testing ground for new policing technologies.

Using the rise of police body cameras as a point of departure, Anthony creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of our shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. Moving from the 19th century, where the nascent art of photography went hand in hand with colonial projects and the development of automatic weapons, to the headquarters of Axon, a company with a near monopoly on body cameras in the United States, Anthony charts a long view of the relationship between photography and violence. His narrative encompasses abstract explorations of the nature of perception and concrete examples of how the limitations of that perception are weaponised.
 

All Light, Everywhere presents this authoritarian use of photography without ever losing sight of the medium’s potential to subvert. Anthony’s self-reflexive style makes room for both ambiguity and the sublime, employing verité, performance, and archival research to frame and reframe, underline and undermine. The film stands as a rebuke of the very images it uses to construct its argument. All Light, Everywhere orients the viewer toward a more democratic approach to the image, forsaking the illusion of certainty for a shared journey towards truth. 
 

Audiences are invited to arrive and get settled from 7.30pm, with the film starting promptly at 8pm (All Light, Everywhere run time 105 minutes). The event will be over around 10pm.
 

On site, you will find food and drinks vendors, portaloos and accessible areas.
This event is outdoors, so please dress appropriately – we recommend that you bring your own blankets and cushions to make the most of this experience.
We have taken into account government guidance relating to social distancing, and will safely accommodate you and your group from arrival through to departure.
 

Tickets are priced at £20 plus fee per plot, and each plot comfortably seats up to 6 people. If you have any access requirements, please contact the team on 0344 8000 410 who are open Monday and Friday between the hours of 10am & 5pm.
 

https://www.andfestival.org.uk/events/all-light-everywhere/