Skype Q&A with Director Joshua Oppenheimer 2016.04.08

Non-CAS Event

Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
VAC 1B20, CU-Boulder

The Departments of Anthropology and Critical Media Practices are proud to present Joshua Oppenheimer's critically acclaimed The Look of Silence at the International Film Series on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30pm in Muenzinger Auditorium. The screening is open to the public. Admission is free for students.

A Skype Q&A with Oppenheimer will follow on Friday, April 8 at 10:00am in VAC 1B20. The event is open to CU students, faculty, and staff.

According to the film's website (thelookofsilence.com), "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. 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. The unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence."

Errol Morris calls the film "one of the greatest and most powerful documentaries ever made."