Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara 
Connectivity: All Light, Everywhere
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025 / 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (PDT)
- Pollock Theater
- Screening Format: 4K digital projection (109 minutes)
- With Theo Anthony (filmmaker)
Through an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing, and justice, Theo Anthony’s 2021 documentary All Light, Everywhere probes the growing presence of surveillance technologies and their claim to objectivity. Anthony embeds himself in communities for whom this question is not theoretical: a company building a business in aerial surveillance of Baltimore protests; a police workshop on how to exploit the limits of the body camera; and the headquarters of Axon Enterprise, the largest manufacturer of body cameras in the United States and the maker of the Taser. Mixing contemporary investigation with archival research and featuring a mesmerizing score by Baltimore-based electronic musician Dan Deacon, All Light, Everywhere exposes the fraying seams of photographic objectivity and argues that the struggle for truth is mainly a struggle for control.
Filmmaker Theo Anthony joined moderator Althea Wasow (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a riveting post-screening discussion of All Light, Everywhere.
Biographies
Theo Anthony (filmmaker)
Theo Anthony is a filmmaker based in Baltimore and upstate New York. His first feature documentary, Rat Film, premiered to critical acclaim, with a successful festival and theatrical run followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens in early 2018. Theo is the recipient of the 2018 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship and the 2019 Sundance and Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship. In 2015, Filmmaker Magazine named him one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His most recent film, Subject to Review, is part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series and premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival. All Light, Everywhere is Theo’s second feature film and first film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Moderator Althea Wasow (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Currently, she is revising her monograph, Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives, which analyzes the complicity and resistance between police power and motion pictures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also developing a Bert Williams essay film, Nobody: In Search of Bert Williams and the Emergence of Global Black Cultural Production (fiscal sponsor: Aubin Pictures), and conducting research on the relationship between Vandenberg Space Force Base and the Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, California, as Co-Primary Investigator of The Satellite Coast project (with PI Lisa Parks, UCSB, and Co-PI Carlos Jimenez Jr., University of Denver).
This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center.
CWC Presents: Connectivity
The Carsey-Wolf Center’s 2025-26 feature series Connectivity examines the evolving meaning of connection in our contemporary moment. While the term “connectivity” often invokes our ever-increasing entanglement with digital infrastructure and social media networks, this series reimagines the term not only as a technical feature of media, but as a humanistic value and a condition of social and public life. This series embraces connectivity as a framework for thinking critically about the ways in which people use media to connect with ideas and with one another, from the shared experience of moviegoing to the collective bonds forged through storytelling and public dialogue.
CWC Docs
The Carsey-Wolf Center is committed to screening documentaries from across the world that engage with contemporary and historical issues, especially regarding social justice and environmental concerns. Documentaries allow filmmakers to address pressing issues and frame the critical debates of our time.