Feeling of Being Watched is a doc film investigating FBI surveillance of Arab & Muslim communities in Chicago. Inverse Surveillance Project is the sequel...
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I’m proud to know 2020 #LivingstonAward winner Assia Boundaoui. And I’m honored the #KnightWallaceFellowship could give her space and support to take her powerful investigative reporting from “The Feeling of Being Watched” and extend it to transformative community journalism.
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And the pop-up becomes a vibrant gathering place, a month-long convening where neighbors and family, elders and children, come to process shared anger, confusion, sadness and resilience. They come to witness and release. They come to affirm their place, their stories.
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And you create an immersive community archive that gives people back their voice, agency and control of their stories.
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You build a public journalism instillation, a narrative labyrinth of files that follows the tangled FBI operation that cast a whole community as suspect. Then you transpose those files with digital images of regular families living regular lives.
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What do you do when your reporting forces the FBI to release 30,000+pages on years of surveillance of your community and their aggressive redactions cause more questions and harm? if you’re @assuss you create a public instillation to allow the community to reclaim its story.
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inviting community to confront thousands of FBI records collected about our Muslim n’hood over a decade of surveillance & then using those records as a canvas to co-create a community archive, has been one of the highlights of my life, closing tomorrow🥹 bit.ly/ISPclosingnight
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This Thursday in Bridgeview, IL! Mark your calendars 📅
After a month of co-creating art, music, hosting power building workshops, and beginning the process of healing as a community, we invite you all for the closing night event!
Mark your calendars and RSVP at bit.ly/ISPworkshops
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tonight in chicago: a DIGITAL SECURITY WORKSHOP hosted by the Inverse Surveillance Project alongside our smart organizer friends at @lucyparsonslabs on the basics of keeping your digital life secure + how to wield the power of FOIA 🤓✊🏾 eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-po… @BeingWatchedDOC
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We are grateful to be partners on this community art exhibit in Chicago's "Little Palestine," featuring creative technology to reclaim the voices and stories of those long affected by federal mass surveillance programs.
the moment when we confront & contest the FBI's violent, non-consensual record of being watched with a community archive of love, of being seen... honored to finally present inversesurveillance.com, a site-specific art installation in Chicago's "Little Palestine" ✊🏾
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yesterday dreams came true, visions were realised, many tears were shed and hearts collectively expanded. big love to @danyaqato and our entire community advisory board for being on this co-creation journey w/us. Chicago fam, we’ll be here all month ! inversesurveillance.com/even…
A million kudos and congrats to @assuss who envisioned– in partnership with @boundaoui_ and a crew of community members– the co/creation of a LIVING, BREATHING community archive that rejects the narrative of the state and instead says, 'we are the storytellers that matter' 💜1/3
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9,930 pages of FBI FOIA records, 140 feet of wall, one tri-circular labyrinth … introducing the Inverse Surveillance Project, co-created with the Chicago Arab and Muslim community in “Little Palestine” — opening tomorrow!! inversesurveillance.com/even…
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it's been an absolute honor to partner with @imancentral @MWFNational @watanpalestine and @tatreezandtea for this co-created project that has been a total labor of spirit and heart, thank you each for your invaluable collaboration
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the moment when we confront & contest the FBI's violent, non-consensual record of being watched with a community archive of love, of being seen... honored to finally present inversesurveillance.com, a site-specific art installation in Chicago's "Little Palestine" ✊🏾
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for the final week of #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth the "Feeling of Being Watched" is streaming gratis on public television, big thanks to @PBS for being a home for my work and for platforming Arab American creatives and films, watch @BeingWatchedDOC here: pbs.org/video/the-feeling-of…
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Now through the end of the month, stream @BeingWatchedDoc on the PBS app! (From @POVdocs) (5/5) to.pbs.org/3MpQMJc
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Boundaoui's directorial debut, The Feeling of Being Watched, is a masterful combination of documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism. It uncovers evidence from a decades-long government surveillance operation targeting the Muslim American community in Chicago. (2/5)
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Check out @assuss' groundbreaking and deeply personal film @BeingWatchedDOC now on @POVdocs for Arab-American Heritage Month.
"Seeing my family respond the way they did...validated that this was important to the community too." Assia Boundaoui investigate how decades of surveillance have affected her Muslim American community in #BeingWatchedFilmPBS. #FilmmakerFriday #AAHM loom.ly/8dT40gw
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The FBI also operated “Operation Vulgar Betrayal” to surveil Muslims under the auspices of combatting terrorism. @assuss documents this in her film @BeingWatchedDOC: feelingofbeingwatched.com/
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"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others..." - W. E. B. Du Bois ... one of my favorite scenes in my film, illustrations by @mollycrabapple, ideas by Du Bois
"We kids were constantly bombarded with images of Arabs and Muslims as radical, backwards, violent villains."
Filmmaker @assuss recalls what it was like growing up as an Arab-Muslim kid in America. Watch @BeingWatchedDOC here: aje.io/Watched