Under Surveillance

For decades StB (State Security) surveillance served for power interests and were often the cause of many years of prison sentences, disgusting form of bullying, invasions of privacy, psychological blackmail. StB heritage of this activity is besides many traumas - which in many cases still persist, especially archive of surveillance photos, which is also very interesting visual historical document. Tens of thousands photos and film footage capture important persons and also a lot of unfamiliar faces and somehow "incidentally" also captures the atmosphere of the time of communist regime. The film tries, through live persons (and the dead also through the photos), to describe in an experimental form "timelessness" mainly of 70s and 80s, but also the essence of this StB voyeurism. At the same time the film will refer also to the present, when privacy has lost its own value...