Laura Poitras Season: 9/11 Trilogy: The Program + CITIZENFOUR + Q&A with Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras will be in conversation with Hito Steyerl via video link.

A screening of two films by Laura Poitras.

The Program
(dir. Laura Poitras, 2012, 8 mins.)

Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data.

CITIZENFOUR
(dir. Laura Poitras, 2014, 122 mins)

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four”, who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies.

In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

Multi-Buy Offer

Buy tickets to all three events for:

£27 Full-price
£21 Concessions
£18 ICA Members