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Project X (2016 short documentary)
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Project X is an American short documentary film written by Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke. It was based on a joint investigation by the magazine The Intercept and the video-journalism platform Field of Vision. It was reportedly based on classified NSA documents.[2][3][4] It was produced by Praxis Films and Field of Vision and released on the Filed of Vision platform the 26th of November 2016.[1]
The documentary, narrated by Michelle Williams and Rami Malek, features Titanpointe, focusing on the mass surveillance (under the code-named FAIRVIEW program) which was conducted by the NSA with help from AT&T, the building operator.[3][5][6][7]
The narration includes read-outs of the classified reports from a handbook for undercover domestic travel, a leaked engineering report and an internal newsletter, which were provided by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden,[1][3] as well as open sources.[8]
It partook at the Curtas Vila do Conde 25th International Film Festival, conducted between July 8-16 2017, as International Competition without winning any awards, and was invited to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the same year.[9][10][11]
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The documentary has a rating of 6.8 out of 10 on IMDb and a 3.5 out of 5 on Letterboxd.[12][13]
Le Cinéma Club's Maxwell Paparella called it "an unsettling study of surveillance architecture", noting that "the directors make full use of the cinematic power of implication, submitting a correlation of sound and image which cannot yet be proven beyond a doubt".[6]
Charlie Lyne of the Guardian called it a "a remarkable new short", likening the monotone narration of Williams and Malek to characters of the 1970s American spy thrillers.[3]
On an interview article with the directors, Eric Hynes of Field of Vision, the platform where the documentary was released, characterized it as "evocative, mysterious, visually and sonically complex, dramatically effective and innovative, and artistically irreducible".[14]
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