The Act of Killing
Revealing the Fiction of Our Reality
Revealing the Fiction of Our Reality
Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer about what the process of making The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence has taught him, and how he sees his role as documentary filmmaker today.
Originally published in FILM on January 29, 2015.
Deconstruction of a genocide
Depicting the genocide in Indonesia in 1965 from the point of view of the perpetrators, “The Act of Killing” has caused an uproar in Indonesia and the West. “If you want to understand where genocide comes from, you have to find out what drives the perpetrators,” says Signe Byrge Sørensen, the film’s Danish producer.
Originally published in FILM Magazine in November 2012.
