Lost Highway & The Cinema That Surveils

A 15-page essay analyzing themes of surveillance and imprisonment in David Lynch's divisive 1997 film Lost Highway! In an age where privacy concerns are becoming increasingly prevalent, and corporate data analysis can track our every move, I take a look at how the future of entertainment might come to reflect these anxieties - and how Lynch's once-maligned film could be a conceptual blueprint for this manner of panoptic surveillance.

Featuring appropriately ominous artwork by Erik Svetoft!