"A Steadicam walks us down a street at night in Burbank, Los Angeles, discreetly accompanied by haunting phrases of music and fragments of Gene Hackman's voice as the camera turns a corner and enters a sound studio where a sound mixer and a foley artist are recording acoustic details of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. On a screen in the studio we see Gene Hackman dismantling a house in search of a hidden bug, a climactic and desperate scene, after the tables have turned and the surveillance expert himself has become the one under ongoing observation. The camera proceeds to move out the backdoor and returns to everyday life of the street while we hear Hackman talking about how the NSA accesses private information. In a single 15-minute shot, Deborah Stratman's "Hacked Circuit" brilliantly pierces the glamor of Hollywood production, demystifies cinematic illusion and raises the troubling specter of contemporary US governmental surveillance of everyday life. The film is aptly dedicated to Walter Murch, the exceptional sound designer and editor behind The Conversation, and Edward Snowden."