[HacktionLab] Fwd/Re: Loira P's: sex, lies and Wikileaks (Risk)

[Patrice Riemens]

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(Dunno if Laura p's 'Risk' should attract _that_ many stars, yet ...)

Does anyone have any idea how to get this film in hands for funky 
showing @ BarnCamp?

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Subject: sunday, june 4, 9 pm: sex, lies and wikileaks
Date: 2017-06-02 09:15
 From: pirate cinema berlin <sebastian at rolux.org>
To: screenings at piratecinema.org

In which Laura Poitras, for reasons that will become painfully obvious 
in her
film, fails to ask the most obvious question: How can you operate an
organization like Wikileaks, and at the same time insist that the world 
still
owes you a love life? How can you simultaneously take on the FBI, the 
CIA, the
NSA and the State Department, but still feel entitled to sexual 
encounters with
pretty much everyone who happens to cross your path? How can you be at 
the
center of a global information warfare operation that traffics some of 
the most
sensitive intelligence on the planet, yet think that it's a good idea to 
leave
a long trail of disgruntled lovers? What point is there in maintaining 
secure
communication channels if you keep violating OpSec 101: Don't fuck 
around.

Even though Laura Poitras doesn't ask any of these questions, she cannot 
help
but answer them. And even though there is no sex in her film, other than 
in
form of veiled and sometimes not-so-veiled references that keep 
recurring both
on and off the screen, her portrait is so intimate that it hurts to 
watch it,
and it inevitably hurts everyone involved, be it in front of or behind 
the
camera. Had she hired actors to play Julian, Jake or Sarah, the most 
personal
scenes would appear laughably implausible; but the fact that they're all
happily playing themselves makes the entire affair look truly surreal. 
While
the whole world is watching from afar, witnessing heroic acts of digital
disobedience committed by a clandestine group of hackers, Poitras' 
close-ups
show something completely different. There are no adults in the room, 
just a
bunch of adolescents, and they're all very busy shooting a documentary.

Contrary to certain claims that have been made since its release, "Risk" 
is not
an act of personal betrayal. It's a self-inflicted wound, and beyond the
willingness of the protagonists, including the filmmaker, to ditch their
original mission, and instead focus on what they seem to mistake for the
glorious private life of global celebrities, there is nothing scandalous 
about
it. This film doesn't leak anything of value, but it keeps dripping, and 
for
anyone who wants to get a better idea of when and how Wikileaks lost its 
sense
of direction, this is, despite its best intentions, a rather important 
document.

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sunday
                                                                          
june 4
                                                                          
   9 pm

                                                                          
   risk
                                                                   laura 
poitras
                                                                    2017, 
92 min

                                                            pirate cinema 
berlin
                                                                u 
kottbusser tor
                                                           e-mail for 
directions

                                    
https://piratecinema.org/trailers/s06e03.mp4

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