Nominated in the “Best Documentary” category for the 2013 Academy Awards, The Act of Killing (2012) has generated extensive debate across a multiple fields for its troubling subject matter, uncanny approach, and uncomfortable conclusions about memory, filmmaking, as well as the human capacity for empathy. RSVP required for members of the public.ġ2:00 PM-1:45 PM (Marriott Thurgood Marshall Ballroom North and East) AAA Panel: Ethnographic Tactics
Free and open to the public.ĩ:30 AM – 12:00 PM (Marriott Thurgood Marshall Ballroom North and East) Advanced Preview Screening of The Look of Silence (99 min) followed by Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer, Joseph Saunders (Human Rights Watch), and Max White (Amnesty International), facilitated by Eben Kirksey. Oppenheimer will be showing the Director’s Cut of this film, which is rarely screened in the U.S., and will be offering an exclusive advanced preview screening of his latest film, The Look of Silence.įree screenings will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008.Ĥ:30 PM – 7:30 PM (Marriott Ballroom): Exclusive Screening: The Act of Killing Director’s Cut (159 min) followed by Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer. It is the human being.” “The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit,” in the words of critics. “It is not the demonized, easily digestible caricature of a mass murderer that most disturbs us.
The Act of Killing, his first major film, is “an important exploration of the complex psychology of mass murderers” in the words of Chris Hedges.
The Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer will be attending the AAA Annual Meetings to screen two films and discuss his tactics of challenging Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.