Nan Goldin made her name with The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a haunting monograph documenting life on the margins in 1980s New York. More than 30 years later, Goldin found herself heading a global campaign against the Sackler family, whose fortune supported dozens of major arts institutions worldwide, but was largely made through OxyContin, the fiercely addictive drug at the heart of the American opioid crisis. Through intimate footage and searching conversations, Poitras skilfully traces Goldin’s journey from there to here, and in the process, shows that the personal and the political are often two sides of the same coin.

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