Film Club: Daniel McKewen

Citizenfour (2014)

26 April 2020

Daniel McKewen is a Brisbane-based artist whose practice investigates the intersections of contemporary art, popular culture, economics, politics, and screen-based mass media. Working appropriately across a range of media including video installation, his work creatively and speculatively examines how the formal and symbolic conventions of these institutionalised structures operate culturally and politically. The resulting artworks explore and express how our subjective and inter-subjective interactions with these structures can allow us to make sense of our own social experiences.

FILM: Citizenfour (2014) (1hr 53mins) dir. Laura Poitras 

ABOUT: After Laura Poitras received encrypted emails from someone with information on the government's massive covert-surveillance programs, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet the sender, who turned out to be Edward Snowden.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.