We hear an argument presumably between a husband and wife escalate into violence but never see the couple or the physical abuse as the camera stays focused primarily on a living room wall.
We don’t see what’s happening because the camera gives us the perspective of being the next door neighbor seated in his or her living room. The sounds of fighting are heard through the wall–shouting, piercing yet muffled words, cries for help, voices getting progressively louder and desperate. A thump or bang is heard, the wall shakes, and then there’s silence.
Indeed, you don’t need to see in order to feel the fear and nightmare that is domestic violence.
A super appears on screen which relates that nearly one in five murders in London is the result of domestic violence. If you suspect domestic violence, this web film urges you to not be passive but rather to take action and call an emergency hotline. A parting super reads, “You make the call. We’ll make it stop,” accompanied by the London Metropolitan Police logo.
Wallpaper was directed by Ben Quinn of The Sweet Shop for AMV BBDO, London. The DP was Daniel Trapp.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More