This collection analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer's diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as a cinematic event that invites interrelated questions on historical memory, truth and reconciliation, and the limits of documentary filmmaking.
On the Act of Looking affirms Oppenheimer's use of fiction and manipulation as a technique to expose, contrary to the classic documentary form, not so much a reality behind the appearance of things, but how appearance as such can become a site of intervention or truth-telling. Contributors to this collection, including film scholars, art historians, historians, political scientists, philosophers, and Indonesian human rights activists, answer why Oppenheimer's documentary films not only have received near universal praise and admiration, but also why this praise is often qualified by surprise and fascination.
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On the Act of Looking
Reading Joshua Oppenheimerâs Diptych: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
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Reading Joshua Oppenheimerâs Diptych: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- About the Authors
- 1 Introduction: The Look of Silence at the Act of Killing
- 2 An Interview with Putu Oka Sukanta and Galuh Wandita
- 3 Thinking of Joshua for My Country, Indonesia
- 4 A Conversation about The Act of Killing
- 5 A Conversation about The Look of Silence
- 6 The Presence and Absence of History in The Act of Killing
- 7 The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence: Movies against the Politics of Stigma
- 8 Performance and Human Rights in Joshua Oppenheimerâs The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
- 9 Joshua Oppenheimerâs Provocation and Its Reception
- 10 All That Is Spectral Made into Solid: Watching The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as Ghost Stories
- 11 The Historical Situation: Oppenheimerâs Metacinema in the Context of Documentary Traditions
- 12 The Truth of Atrocity: The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence and Fantasmatic Violence
- 13 The Discourse of the Analyst: A Reading of The Act of Killing
- 14 Conclusion: On Forgiveness for Acts of Killing
- Index
- Copyright
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