This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehumanized?
AWARDS: Max Ophuls Award. Int´l Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
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Find Fix Finish. How do drones look at us
This documentary delves into the accounts of three military drone pilots as they tell the intimate story of the lives they observe on a day-to-day basis.
The voyeuristic ocular perspective from a military drone can reduce people to pixels on a screen and a certain decontextualisation is almost necessary to deal with the fact that people can be killed on a push of a button.
“Have you ever stepped on an anthill and not given it a second thought?”.