Laura Poitras: using art to illuminate a world that would rather remain unseen | Art and design | The Guardian
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A short film is showing in a corner on the eighth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Just over eight minutes long, the 2004 piece by Oscar-winning film-maker Laura Poitras shows a family in Iraq up on their roof checking out gunfire on the streets.