ACMI's Eyes Without a Face finds Big Brother is watching and we don't mind a bit

By Andrew Stephens
Updated October 8 2015 - 10:13am, first published October 2 2015 - 11:45pm
A scene from <i>Quiet: We Live in Public</i>.
A scene from <i>Quiet: We Live in Public</i>.
John Hurt and Richard Burton in the 1984 screen version of <i>1984</i>.
John Hurt and Richard Burton in the 1984 screen version of <i>1984</i>.
James Stewart in <i>Rear Window</i>.
James Stewart in <i>Rear Window</i>.

It was 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and an all-seeing big brother was only just emerging. Not the well-known Big Brother watching from within the TV screens of  George Orwell's 1984, but the Big Brother that digital natives are deeply familiar with: the reality show.

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