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

[Patrice Riemens]

Hi All,

It was just webtransfered to me by Karin Spaink of Hippies from Hell.

So possibly show at BC 2017?

Cheers, p+2D!


On 2017-06-02 14:35, Patrice Riemens wrote:
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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?
> 
> .........
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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
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