2016 | Germany, Taiwan, Togo | Fiction

The Lighting

  • Cantonese, Chinese, French 21 mins
  • Director | Graham Moore
  • Writer | Graham Moore, Johnathan McClain
  • Producer | Gregor Kasper, Patrick Atakpa Ayele-Yawou

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan’s MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

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