"Citizenfour" is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill and Glenn Greenwald's encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name "Citizenfour", in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film. "Citizenfour" places you in the room with Poitras, MacAskill, Greenwald, and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives and all of those around them. "Citizenfour" not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance - it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.
Recorded Live at the Arts Theatre, September 2nd 2013.
Tracking:
- Prelude In C Sharp Minor, OP.3 No.2 (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
- Etude Tableau In E Minor, OP.39 No.5 (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
- Widmung (Schumann - Liszt)
- Montagues and Capulets (Sergei Prokofiev)
- Orfeo Melody (Gluck - Sgambati)
- Presto, from Sonata No.3 In B Minor, OP. 58 (Frederic Chopin)
- Scherzo No.2, OP. 31 (Frederic Chopin)
- Beethoven Parody (Dudley Moore)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg - Ginzburg)
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