Unseen Skies + In Conversation with Yaara Bou Melhem

Mass surveillance, data collection and A.I. are abstract but pervasive realities of our lives. But how do you make the unseen accountable? Journey into the mind of one of the world's leading contemporary artists as he reveals the unseen forces shaping our futures.

Yaara Bou Melhem’s first feature-length documentary follows conceptual artist Trevor Paglen – one of the 21st century’s most visionary thinkers – on one of his most audacious project to date. Trying to make visible the unseen, he attempts to launch an artwork into space to show that our skies are more than the exclusive playground of the military-industrial complex. Or are they? Paglen’s art interrogates issues of mass surveillance and data collection, and the adverse effects of technology on our anonymity and privacy.

Unseen Skies is a glimpse into a reality that exists in plain sight but goes largely unseen and undetected. Director, writer and producer Bou Melhem, the five-time Walkley Award-winning filmmaker and investigative journalist, goes behind the lens on Paglen’s journey to bring to light the urgency of the global impact of technology in the 21st century and active adverse effects on our anonymity and privacy.