Checkpoints

CETC’s three-dimensional portrait and integrated data doors – special machines that are used in some of Xinjiang’s checkpoints to vacuum up people’s identifying information from their electronic devices. This is placed at the entrance to the Aq Mosque, in Urumqi, 2018. Photo 2018 Joanne Smith Finley

– China’s Algorithms of Repression. Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App 2019 Human Rights Watch

They arrive at the far shore of the Blue Water.
Cautious doors hesitate.
Then, allow her in.

– Manu Luksch, FACELESS (2006 AT/UK). Co-written with Mukul Patel. Narrated by Tilda Swinton. Film excerpt.