Laura Poitras: The Woman Who Hacked Hollywood

Flore Vasseur hat für Backchannel (bzw. vorher für Society in Frankreich) Laura Poitras portraitiert: The Woman Who Hacked Hollywood. Das Portrait beschäftigt sich mit ihrem Werdegang, von einer Köchin hin zum Film, bis sie schließlich Edward Snowden kennenlernt und ihre Kamera draufhält.

It’s been almost ten years since Laura Poitras’ name has been on the NSA Watch List. Every time she returns to her home country, security agents wait for her, somewhere between the gate of the plane and the US Immigration booth. They take her away to a room, confiscate her gear, her notebooks, and her videos. They question her and copy her hard drives. This has happened to her at least forty times since 2006. Her crime? To document history, the signs of our troubled times.