Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in his latest feature, ”Stranger Eyes,” which is vying for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
The film, which follows a couple grappling with their baby’s disappearance and the discovery of invasive surveillance footage, probes the psychological toll of constant observation in an increasingly interconnected world.
Yeo, whose previous film, “A Land Imagined,” won the Golden Leopard at Locarno, sees “Stranger Eyes” as part of cinema’s long-standing fascination with voyeurism. “Maybe because of an obsession to see itself, I think cinema has always been fixated about idea of the voyeur and we have
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