Screen/Society -- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Series: Films of Laura Poitras -- "The Oath" (35mm)

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 3:00pm to 4:45pm
Screen/Society -- Diamonstein-Spielvogel Series: Films of Laura Poitras -- "The Oath" (35mm)

Film Screening:

 

The Oath
(Laura Poitras, 2010, 90min, USA, In Arabic with English subtitles, 35mm)

Filmmaker Laura Poitras returns to post-9/11 concerns with a profile of two men who were part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. Both Abu Jandal and his brother-in-law, Salim Hamdan, worked for Osama bin Laden and were members of Al Qaeda. Whereas Hamdan, Osama's personal driver, ended up in Guantanamo Bay facing a military tribunal, Jandal, Osama's bodyguard, is "free" and driving a cab in Yemen. There, Poitras chronicles Jandal's day-to-day activities and listens to his new message of jihad through peaceful protest, not terrorism.

"What emerges is an illuminating, though terribly dismaying, portrait of the War on Terror's lasting effects." -- Time Out New York

-- Nominated for the Grand Jury Documentary Prize and winner for cinematography at Sundance

-- Oct 2, 2012 Newsflash: Laura Poitras Named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow!

-- Last of three films leading up to the October 24th conversation between Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Laura Poitras in the Nasher Museum Auditorium at 6:00pm.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Archive of Documentary Arts, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)

Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater