The ground breaking TV series on
Channel 4 in
Britain.
The brainchild of
Aden Ikram and
Kate Bernstein who dedicated a year of their lives hoping to uncover illicit
voyeurists in
New York city.
The show takes you into the lives of
every day people, using pretty much
every day technology to do some pretty
weird things.
The show is based on all their footage and interviews that they have compiled into TV format.
Each week, the show concentrates on a different subject.
The last show I saw was about people
publishing their every day diaries online. People were putting their
entire lives on websites, free for public
perusal by anyone.
Intimate details, names, eveything. These websites are getting hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of
page impessions per day.
Another show was a guy walking around new york with a
video camera in a bag that he would hold down by his knees and walk around the city, into department stores or whatever, filming
up womens skirts.
My favourite show of all though, was the guy who takes a
video camera with a
night vision accessory into night clubs around new york and films people doing
whatever people do in nightclubs. It is pretty amazing to see how people
behave when they think they are
under the cover of darkness.
The guy also had a
pervy kind of twist aswell. He had this filter he could put onto the end of his
video camera that could kind of
see through light material, like sun dresses and skirts.
One of the most interesting things about the show, apart from the insight into modern
voyeurism and
exhibitionism, is that the
voyeurs and the showpeople are not
perverted old men and raving
lunatics.
They are
young,
hip,
smart people just doing what they like to do.
It is a fantastic show that anyone curious about modern society should watch.