International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019: "The Spying Thing"

In his introduction to "The Spying Thing," a 20-title selection of espionage films that he curated with Gustavo Beck, long-time IFFR programmer Gerwin Tamsma goes back to the deep well of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and finds in it a timely new metaphor. Jimmy Stewart's wheelchair-bound peeping tom is now a 21st-century government or multinational corporation, collecting data from his neighbors without their knowledge or consent, constrained only by the length of his lens (technology) ...