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Stephen MarshallThe Mondex Scenario - Part 1 (MediumBand) (1997)

In 1997, Channel Zero became the first independent producer in Canadian broadcast history to be given a series on the coveted National news program. This controversial series, The Electronic Eye: Canada as a Surveillance Society, is one that, even several years later, still holds ominous prescience about the current state of affairs in American civil society. Namely in the realms of government surveillance, manufacturing of public consent and the protection of privacy in the corporatist state. The following is an excerpted description from the original profile:

"In Part 1, The Mondex Scenario, we look at the advent of a cashless society. This commercial evolution has been linked to everything from a signal of apocalypse to the birth of a new barter system and the end of banks. What is the current status of the virtual economy and what will it mean for Canadians? Who are its advocates and critics? How is information becoming the most powerful commodity on Earth and who will be its bankers? What role does big business need to exert in the unfolding drama to ensure that a new and revolutionary banking system is accepted by an increasingly skeptical public?

Futuristic and millennial in its scope, this Channel Zero production will also discuss the societal implications of this inevitable reality and move into realms of privacy, surveillance, sovereignty, and the new face of business - in this era of convergence, what is the emerging economy of databases and how does the commodification of information affect the way we view our own rights to privacy... not as consumers but as citizens? What must we do to protect these rights and assert our own rules about the use of information in the private sector?"


This movie is part of the collection: News & Public Affairs

Director: Stephen Marshall
Producer: Sarah Aston, Paul McNulty, Joulie Wheeler
Production Company: Channel Zero/Psychedigital
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: guerrilla news network; CBC; Mondex

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