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Tue Sep 29 2015

The Above

Kirsten Johnson

(8 min.)

In Kirsten Johnson’s The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.

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