Project X: Laura Poitras homes in on the dark side of the internet

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>33 Thomas Street is a 550ft skyscraper

Few film-makers, though, have adequately captured the dichotomous nature of the internet as something both omnipresent and entirely abstract, like the air we breathe. That’s what Citizenfour director Laura Poitras attempts in Project X, a remarkable new short launching this Monday on video-journalism platform Field Of Vision. In it, she zeroes in on a single building in lower Manhattan to reveal the invisible pervasiveness of internet surveillance around the globe

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Movie buffs who appreciate these allusions, however, will be disappointed to learn that Project X’s title comes not from the 1987 Matthew Broderick chimp movie

Project X (1987)
https://youtu.be/gHo8n-6GbIU

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nor the 2012 teen comedy

Project X (2012)
https://youtu.be/3BEIhA8CcY0

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>>18367915
>HyperNormalisation,Adam Curtis

HyperNormalisation: A new film by Adam Curtis - BBC
https://youtu.be/AUiqaFIONPQ

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Co-directed by journalist Henrik Moltke

http://realscreen.com/2016/11/16/laura-poitras-project-x-to-open-in-new-york-on-nov-18/

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Moltke_(journalist)

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Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams

Rami Malek and Michelle Williams are two of the most daring and exciting actors working today, and it was a thrill to collaborate with them,” said Poitras in a statement about the film’s release

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Excerpt from “Project X”

https://player.vimeo.com/video/191716278

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Moltke has also teamed with journalist Ryan Gallagher of investigative news site The Intercept to write an article

http://interc.pt/2eGLVYx

In a 1982 piece in the New York Times, architecture critic Paul Goldberger praised 33 Thomas Street as “one of the neighborhood’s few pieces of good modern architecture,” adding that it “blends into its surroundings more gracefully than does any other skyscraper in this area.”

“Other telephone company buildings from that era, designed solely for equipment, all look like horrible boxes,” Goldberger told The Intercept. “This one has an allure of its own to it. … There’s something about that shape. You see it and you don’t see it at the same time.”

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Moar?

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After it was built, the unusual style of 33 Thomas Street attracted a lot of attention. Its dark, somewhat dystopian appearance contrasted dramatically with other buildings in lower Manhattan. Yet it proved popular, particularly among architecture buffs

>>18371435
It is a somehow attractive building. Like the verizon tower, it has the same dark allure.

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At night it becomes a giant shadow, blending into the darkness, its large square vents emitting a distinct, dull hum