Wants to be one-eyed into the camera head can be used.

Rob Spence has only one eye, the second, he wants to replace a camera, which in its empty eye socket will be used. His environment is scary - and this inspired the documentary: He is planning a film about the fear, to be watched.

 

A one-eyed documentary from Canada for his work has a whole new perspective found: For future recordings, he wants his camera in front of you no longer wear, but a miniature version in his eyes prosthesis can use. This will enable it to provide the world in the truest sense of the word with the eye of the observer noted how Rob Spence of these days at a conference on electronic media in Brussels said.

The tiny camera was originally developed for Darmblogsungen. The manufacturer OmniVision from California demonstrated by Spence's idea and adapted it for his project. They saw a good potential for the future, says product manager Zafer Zamboglu. Accordingly, it is undoubtedly a challenge, all electronic components in the camera so a glass eye to stow that outwardly nothing is visible.

The idea for the project came Spence claims to spontaneously when he was once the tiny camera on his mobile phone looked. The filmmaker was in the 70s a big fan of the U.S. series "The Six Million Dollar Man", which a decade later in the German television was to be seen. It has a man thanks to a costly operation after a plane crash on a bionic eye. This idea has Spence, whose right eye in a shooting accident in his childhood and damaged three years ago has been removed, never released.

"As a documentary filmmaker is looking for you so direct contact with people, on the one reported," he says. "And of course there is no better contact than just make eye contact." From this perspective, a documentary film to shoot, could virtually revolutionize the genre.

Documentation about the fear, to be watched

However, there are also ethical concerns. When the camera is in the eye really works, then it would be virtually Spence recordings at all times, without that his counterpart would be aware. This will be the eye of the beholder virtually spy warns Marc Rotenberg of the Washington Information Center for the protection of privacy in the electronic age. Many respondents agreed with Rotenberg agreed that they felt very uncomfortable at the thought that in this way to be watched.

Spence appeared on such concerns more surprised. The people would daily basis at all places of thousands of hidden cameras observed, but this seems less disturbing than the camera in his eye.

However, he admits that his friends and acquaintances are visibly nervous, the closer the project moves to its implementation. You would be afraid, ever to be filmed, and had been threatened, it will no longer want to take.

That is why Spence exactly these fears about its future documentation and make a film about the widespread surveillance systems rotate. He will be with the camera eye on the supervisor to monitor and respond to the question of search, "whether we are sleepwalking into a surveillance society, as in Orwell's novel'1984 'slip'.