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by Michael Wolraich
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The Nihilism of Julian Assange
By artappraiser on Wed, 06/21/2017 - 2:52am |Review of Risk, a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras
By Sue Halpern for The New York Review of Books July 17 issue, available online now
About forty minutes into Risk, Laura Poitras’s messy documentary portrait of Julian Assange, the filmmaker addresses the viewer from off-camera. “This is not the film I thought I was making,” she says. “I thought I could ignore the contradictions. I thought they were not part of the story. I was so wrong. They are becoming the story.” [....]
URL:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/
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