The following is reblogged, excerpted and modified, from e²mc. How do films deal with historical atrocities? And how might they enable them in the first place? The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling documentary about the perpetrators of the mass murders committed by the Suharto regime’s paramilitary death squads in mid-1960s Indonesia. The filmmakers […]
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Documenting the act of killing
Posted in Cinema, Politics, Visual culture, tagged atrocities, documentary, Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing on October 23, 2013 | 4 Comments »
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