JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

THE LOOK OF SILENCE (2015)

Starring Adi Rukun, M.y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong, Kemat, Joshua Oppenheimer, Amir Siahaan and Ted Yates. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.

'The Look of Silence' is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar-nominated 'The Act of Killing'. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

THE LOOK OF SILENCE (2015)

Starring Adi Rukun, M.y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong, Kemat, Joshua Oppenheimer, Amir Siahaan and Ted Yates. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.

'The Look of Silence' is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar-nominated 'The Act of Killing'. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

THE ACT OF KILLING (2013)

Starring Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin and Sakhyan Asmara. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.

In this chilling and inventive documentary, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.

REVIEWS The Act Of Killing - A tedious disappointment