Laura Poitras's Whitney show and book are a glimpse into life under full-strength, targeted US surveillance
by Cory Doctorow from on (#15SEX)
Laura Poitras, whose 2014 Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour won the Academy Award for best doc, has a show on at NYC's Whitney Museum called "Astro Noise," which attempts to capture the sense of overwhelming surveillance she's lived under since the US government targeted her while she was shooting a documentary in Iraq. (more")