SURVEILLANCE FILM Post-Production Update
Since the last update on this blog, production of Surveillance Film has been completed, and post-production is well underway. The majority of the principal photography took place on Saturday, December 15, in Baltimore, Maryland, when Cullen Gallagher and I recorded our conversation about the relationship between cinema and surveillance. This conversation (shot with the Zoom camera designed for recording music performances) forms the structure of the film, which is interspersed with selected silent film clips and original footage that I shot myself (some with the Google Pixel 5 smartphone camera, others with a $20 camcorder purchased at a bargain outlet store). The rough cut of the picture edit was completed in January 2025, and the process has now moved on to the final stage of scoring the film and finalizing the sound mix. Cullen is composing and recording an original score for the film, which will accompany the original video and found footage segments. There may ...