Filmmaker Plans Documentary To Be Filmed With His Eye
Posted on: Friday, 6 March 2009, 08:35 CST
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence plans to film a documentary about surveillance in society with a mini camera in his prosthetic eye.
Spence, who lost his eye as a teen, is calling the endeavor “Project Eyeborg.” The tiny camera will include a wireless transmitter mounted on a small circuit board.
"Originally the whole idea was to do a documentary about surveillance. I thought I would become a sort of super hero ... fighting for justice against surveillance," Spence told Reuters News.
According to the filmmaker, the camera will not be connected to his brain, but will fuse his body with the camera technology.
Spence will join an ever-growing number of “lifecasters” who record every moment of their lives. Unlike the others, Spence will allow others to see what he sees.
"The eyes are like no other part of the body," Spence told Wired.com. "It's what you look into when you fall in love with somebody and influences whether you trust someone or not. Now with a video camera in there, it will change how people see and perceive me."
Spence says many people have told him they won’t be comfortable being filmed by his new eye.
"In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don't care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy," the filmmaker said.
He does not intend for his project to become a reality TV show. Spence will turn the camera off at some private events, but says most of those decisions will be made on the fly.
"I don't want to go into a locker room. I don't want to show the world me going to the bathroom either," he said.
Spence hopes the project will get people thinking about how surveillance footage is being used and accessed.
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On the Net:
- Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket
- Progress on the project can be followed at www.eyeborgblog.com
Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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