
Short Films of Laura Poitras

Program Includes:
Death of a Prisoner (2013, 9 mins)
The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.
O'Say Can You See (2011, 18 mins)
O'Say Can You See is composed of images filmed at Ground Zero in September and October 2001, days after the 9/11 attacks. The soundtrack is composed of the National Anthem recorded in October 2001 at the Yankees' World Series Game 4 in New York. The solo vocal recording of the National Anthem has been looped and deconstructed.
The Program (2012, 9 mins)
Filmmaker 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.
Project X (2016, 10 mins)
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.
Terror Contagion (2021, 25 mins)
A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware to target journalists and human rights defenders worldwide.














