A terrorist on your TV, your face pressed to the glass — who's watching who?
Osama Bin Laden – Britain and the USA in Iraq as through television reportage – camera only inches from the screen
Direction
Le Grice forces your nose to the screen literally and metaphorically.
Editing
Eight minutes that collapse news, propaganda, and voyeurism into one suffocating loop.
Director
Malcolm Le Grice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 2001, this predates 9/11 by months — Le Grice was already interrogating how Western media packaged Bin Laden as boogeyman before the towers fell.
Le Grice pioneered 'expanded cinema' in the 1960s; this late work applies those same structuralist tactics to the flat, toxic glow of CNN.
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