All Light, Everywhere

The actual stuff the film sees, however, is pretty interesting.

While it doesn’t quite cohere into a neat central thesis, the film did leave me with both the means and the inclination to do some further thinking on the subject.

While the effort put into research for this documentary is commendable, ultimately the aestheticisation of the information dampens its impact.

All Light, Everywhere uncovers the limitations of trying to understand the natural order of the world and to predict the future behavior of complex systems.

It's an incredibly complicated, chewy, and wonderful documentary.

As a freestanding work, All Light, Everywhere has got more problems than can be described here. But as a gift-bag of prompts for discussion, it's hard to beat.

All Light, Everywhere succeeds on the basis of Anthony’s editorial choices; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which by themselves constitute several chapters or mini-documentaries capable of dropping one’s jar.

Anthony brings a lot of intriguing ideas into play about vision, technology, and how the two have tangled in myriad ways throughout the centuries, often with weaponry and state control involved in troubling ways.

Combining hallucinatory and often abstract visuals, history, and conventional fly-on-the-wall filmmaking, All Light, Everywhere is a fascinating experiment in documentary form.

A wealth of philosophical statements are banded around the film, in cool, unfeeling voiceover as well as disconnected subtitles.