Laura Poitras Collection [DVD]

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Poitras knew Assange could be difficult – when she started filming he had already fallen out with the Guardian – but the level of difficulty surprised her. In 2010, an arrest warrant was issued in Sweden, where WikiLeaks is based, in relation to sexual assault allegations against two women. Things became more difficult in 2012, when the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that he should be extradited to Sweden and he sought sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy.

Laura Poitras takes documentaries into the future with Field of Vision". The Guardian. September 30, 2015. She says she’s exhausted and could do with a break, but she’s hooked on film-making: surveillance and the intelligence services in particular. What would she like to do next? “I’d love to look at what’s happening in the investigation into Trump. I don’t think I am going to get that access!” she laughs. “I don’t think Comey would take my phone call, unfortunately. He’d be top of the list of people I’d love to film at the moment.” Laura Poitras poses with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which she won last September for 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.' Domenico Stinellis (AP) Poitras] treads new territory, presenting work that breaks away from the format of documentary filmmaking and moves into the realm of immersive art installations.” Snowden va obtenir el passaport rus fa uns mesos després de fer un jurament de lleialtat. Com viu la situació provocada per la guerra d’Ucraïna?Snowden filmmaker Laura Poitras: 'Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies' ". Washington Post. October 23, 2014. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, domestic violence issues, substance abuse or other mental health matters, the following support is available: As journalists, we have an obligation to protect sources. Internally, I made these same arguments and didn’t believe that the organization was capable of accountability. I certainly hoped that they would do an independent review. It would have been an appropriate response to my speaking out. I had tried what I could internally. Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage". Phys.org . Retrieved October 22, 2014.

UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2014 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 24, 2014. Archived from the original on February 1, 2019 . Retrieved January 31, 2019. Zeitchik, Stephen. Perspective With Laura Poitras' re-cut 'Risk,' a director controversially changes her mind about Julian Assange, Los Angeles Times. May 6, 2017. WikiLeaks attorneys blast Citizen Four maker Poitras". Newsweek. May 17, 2017 . Retrieved April 4, 2019. Goldin is best known for her pioneering, taboo-busting photography slideshow series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” Featuring the artist, her friends and countercultural figures of 1970s and ’80s New York, it’s a masterclass in curation that continues to evolve to this day. A slide goes in, a slide goes out; new images are pushed together, new harmonies and juxtapositions formed. The sequence evolves, and with it, the story she tells.

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She and her Citizenfour crew then practically closed down the Vanity Fair after-party. The mood was celebratory, but what she felt, more than anything, was relief. “There were so many potential bad outcomes for so many people,” she says now. “It was pretty extraordinary that this was the outcome.” Coughlin recalls sitting on a couch at 4:00 a.m. next to Poitras and her Oscar. “I turned to her and had a kind of ‘Holy shit’ moment, like, ‘Look at where you are. You could have been in jail, or you could be at the Vanity Fair Oscar party!’ ” Now the filmmaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and artist has her first solo exhibit. "Astro Noise" is a series of installations that explore topics including mass surveillance, Guantánamo Bay, the war on terror and torture." Zeitchik, Steven (May 6, 2017). "With Laura Poitras' re-cut 'Risk,' a director controversially changes her mind about Julian Assange". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved May 9, 2017. The Boston-born filmmaker has found a new outlet to bring home the realities of the surveillance state to Americans.”