Documentarian Sonia Kennebeck’s feature debut National Bird focused on three whistleblowers speaking about the United States military’s use of drones in secret wars waged overseas. She gave those veterans a platform with which to tell their story and perhaps assuage some guilt while striving to find a hopeful path forward within a world plagued by technological warfare more akin to videogame detachment than seeing the “whites of an insurgent’s eyes.” So it makes sense that she’d also gravitate towards the wild conspiracies surrounding another whistleblower-adjacent figure in Matthew DeHart. He was seeking asylum in Canada at the time for what he believed was targeted criminal harassment by the US government for his role in hosting a server for Anonymous. It was a story that demanded to be told.
Kennebeck wasn’t alone in that sentiment either as National Post journalist Adrian Humphreys followed suit for the...
Kennebeck wasn’t alone in that sentiment either as National Post journalist Adrian Humphreys followed suit for the...
- 9/10/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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