Citizenfour: Filmmaking as an Act of Justice
… is the headline of an article written yesterday by Cara Mertens from Fordfoundation. Read the whole article, here is a quote:
…CitizenFour reflects the historical moment in which it was made, and influences it at the same time. It is a film that is deeply concerned with democracy, and may well become one of the defining documents of the early 21st century. This is Poitras’ (photo, with Glenn Greenwald) third film in what she describes as a post-9/11 cinematic trilogy: My Country, My Country, nominated for an Oscar in 2006, and The Oath (2010) are the first two, and they are also crucial viewing.
As a trilogy, they stand as a singular achievement: one artist’s decision to use cinema, arguably the most powerful and far-reaching art form, to understand complex, contradictory global forces as they play out in individual lives. Few artists have the audacity, the commitment, the capacity, and the imagination to work in such bold and longitudinal terms. (Joshua Oppenheimer’s recent diptych, The Act of Killing and Look of Silence, is perhaps analogous.)…
http://www.fordfoundation.org/equals-change/post/citizenfour-filmmaking-as-an-act-of-justice
