By Mónica Delgado

With a world premiere in Rotterdam Film Festival and a Canadian premiere in Wavelenghts, Fern’s Silva The Watchmen is a revisitation on the concept of the panoptic from its vestiges and interactions with new dispositives of social surveillance. If the Jeremy Bentham invention is recovered here from some abandoned architectural ruins, which give an idea of the failure of methods of control and power, the question of feeling surveilled and repressed by an omnipresent being seem to be a conceptual motivation that the filmmaker uses in this short film.