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

[naomi]

I would love to see this


On 02/06/17 16:49, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>                                                                        
>>  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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>>
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