Secrecy
80 minutes, 2008 (Documentary)
A film by Robb Moss P ’05 and Peter Galison
Screening:
Saturday, 3:00 p.m., followed by Q&A with the filmmaker
By
exploring secrecy's relationship to fear, the courts, and executive power, the
film explores the tensions between national security secrecy and democracy.
Robb Moss P'05 (Secrecy) Robb's most 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 80
cities across North America. Other films have shown at the Telluride
Film Festival, screened at Lincoln Center, MoMA, and at numerous venues
around the world. As a cinematographer he has shot films in Ethiopia,
Hungary, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Turkey -- on such subjects as famine,
genocide, and the large-scale structure of the universe -- many of
which were shown on public television. He was on the 2004 jury at the
Sundance Film Festival and has thrice served as a creative advisor 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.
