Secrecy

Director: Peter Galison & Robb Moss
Cast: Tom Blanton, Melissa Boyle Mahle, Mike Levin, Bart Gellman, Neal Katyal, Charles Swift, James Bruce, Steven Aftergood
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 86 minutes
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screening in: Special Screenings

Screening Times

11:00 AM, Saturday March 8th - Alamo Lamar 1
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12:00 PM, Wednesday March 12th - Alamo Lamar 2
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2:30 PM, Saturday March 15th - Alamo Lamar 2
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Synopsis:
The film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By filming people from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, reporters, information seekers, and individuals whose lives have been marked by their encounters with the classification bureaucracy, the film probes secrecy's relationship to fear, executive power and national security.

Director's Bio:
Robb Moss's recent film, The Same River Twice, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit award, and played theatrically in more than eighty cities across North America. Other films have premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and at festivals around the world, including in Holland, Russia, France, and Australia, Brazil. He was on the 2004 documentary Jury at the Sundance Film Festival and has thrice served as a creative adviser for the Sundance Institute documentary labs. He is the past board chair and president of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers and has taught filmmaking at Harvard University for the past twenty years.

Peter Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997 Galison was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (the so-called 'genius' award); won a 1998 Pfizer Award (for "Image and Logic") as the best book that year in the History of Science; and in 1999 was awarded the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize. His other books include How Experiments End (1987) and most recently Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps (2003)Ñhe has worked extensively with de-classified material in his historical writings about physics in the Cold War, as well as an extended study of the moral-political debates over the construction of the hydrogen bomb. In 2000 he co-producedÑwith Pam Hogan--the film Ultimate Weapon about the moral political debate surrounding the building of the H-bomb.