Sundance Abuzz Over 'Secrecy' Film
A new documentary on government suppression of information has generated some buzz at the Sundance Film Festival in recent days. The aptly titled "Secrecy" was made by Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss and has been screened a half-dozen times at the Park City, Utah cinematic carnival.
The festival's online movie guide calls the film "stylistically elegant and provocative" and says the documentary takes audiences "inside the inverted world of government secrecy." Its creators try to answer the questions: When does security erode, rather than enhance, democracy? Can burying too much information actually undermine national security?
"We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge," the directors note on the movie's Web site. "In a single recent year the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress."
It's no secret that Sundance appreciates the film. It has been nominated for one of festival's top honors -- a grand jury prize.
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