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Jun 4, 2024 · Created by American photographer and activist Nan Goldin, the 30-minute film tells the story of Goldin’s elder sister, Barbara, who was sent to a psychiatric detention centre at the age of 12, and took her own life at 18 (Barbara was a central figure in All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated documentary ...
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4 days ago · A Deep Dive into Mass Surveillance. The 2014 documentary "Citizenfour," directed by Laura Poitras, offers a gripping and intimate look at whistleblower Edward Snowden ’s revelation of extensive government surveillance. This film captures the tension-filled days before, during, and after Snowden's disclosures about the NSA's practices, making ...
Jun 15, 2024 · The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [2]
4 days ago · Those chapters of Glodin’s life are captured in her slideshow Memory Lost (2019–2021) and in Laura Poitras’s 2022 award-winning documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. At her Brooklyn residence, I met a fun and youthful Goldin who was generous with her time and wisdom. The following are edited highlights from our conversation.
Jun 6, 2024 · Columbus’ major shift toward gentrification is well illustrated in “Flag Wars,” a 2003 documentary directed by Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, who directed the documentary Citizenfour about Edward Snowden.
Jun 7, 2024 · Viewers new to the art and activism of Nan Goldin learn in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) that the catalyst for her work is the death of her older sister, Barbara. The girls’ parents interpreted Barbara’s teenage vivaciousness as mental illness and had her locked away.
Jun 3, 2024 · Late Holzer belongs to a booming genre—typified by the work of Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, David Maisel, and others—that I think of as “Aha!” art, wherein an intrepid, politically minded ...
