A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night
1983

Video, 62 minutes

Identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the pages of Newsweek magazine. Voiceover analyses and a shuffling of news articles, on geopolitical and domestic subjects, implicate the U.S. government in the support of regimes, which systematically use torture. Despite its overwhelming barrages, the press is forced to disgorge the facts concealed by its own complicity with repression, by being read against the grain.