Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Oppenheimer

  • Born: 1974-9-23
  • Birthplace: Texas
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  • Profession: Director, producer
  • Nationality: America
  • Representative Works: The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing
    • Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Oppenheimer) , born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA, is an American director and producer.
    In 1995, directed his first documentary short film "Hugh" [1]  . In 1997, directed the documentary short film "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase" [2]  , which won the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2003, the short documentary "Market Update" directed by him was released [1]  . In 2007, directed the documentary short film "Show of Force". In 2012, directed the documentary " The Act of Killing " [3]  , which was nominated for the 86th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature [4]  . In 2014, directed the documentary " The Look of Silence " and served as the producer of the film [5]  . The film won the main competition unit of the 71st Venice International Film Festival-Jury Prize [6]  . In 2016, he served as a judge for the main competition unit of the 73rd Venice Film Festival [7]  . In 2017, he served as the guest director of the Telluride Film Festival [8]  .

    Performing Experience

    In 1995, directed his first documentary short film "Hugh"   . In 1996, directed the documentary short film "These Places We've Learned to Call Home"   . In 1997, directed the documentary "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase"   , which won the Chicago International Film Festival Golden Hugo Award; in the same year, he served as the director of the documentary "The Challenge of Manufacturing"   .
    In 2003, directed the documentary short film "Market Update"   ; in the same year, he served as the director of the documentary short film "A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches"   . In 2004, the documentary short film "Postcard from Sun City, Arizona"   directed by him was released ; in the same year, he directed the documentary short film "Muzak: a tool of management"   . In 2007, directed the documentary short film "Show of Force".
    In 2012, directed the documentary " The Act of Killing "   , which repeated the bloody massacre of opposition personnel by the Indonesian military government   . The film was nominated for the 86th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature Film   .
    In 2014, directed the documentary " The Look of Silence " and served as the producer of the   film. The film reproduced the brutal massacre of so-called "leftists" during the Indonesian purge in the 1960s from the perspective of the perpetrator. The film was nominated for the No. The 88th Oscar Award for Best Documentary   Feature Film won the Jury Prize, the main competition unit of the 71st Venice International Film Festival   .
    In 2016, he served as a judge for the main competition unit of the 73rd Venice Film Festival   . In 2017, he served as the guest director of the Telluride Film Festival   .

    Personal Life

    Joshua Oppenheimer is openly gay and lives with his partner Shu in Copenhagen, Denmark   .

    Character Evaluation

    In the documentary "The Look of Silence", he managed two perspectives of a complex subject with ease. As a director, his talent is surprising. He has a deep understanding of art and film, and his films are much more than political expressions . He has always paid attention to the lower class people, to ordinary laborers and souls who desire freedom, and to the original sin and human nature of mankind. He dared to ask questions of the ruling class, insisting on expressing with unique and stylized images, using images to express through events, through packaged language, through the eyes, skins and all other decorations of characters, and point to the heart. Perhaps because of Fei’s special way of speaking in the fictional film itself, or perhaps because Oppenheimer has gained the deep recognition and trust of his subjects, so that he can fully show those small, fragmented, or angry in his works. , A meaningful picture. What’s more valuable is that in Oppenheimer’s story, there are no ambiguities. He appears to be very firm in all the thinking process. He discards the established mode of expression and makes the story seem more rough. Perhaps this is him. The original appearance of the humanity that I know and want to show .   
    Extended Reading

    The Act of Killing reviews

    • Eloy 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      "A Living Textbook for Mass Crime"

      The name "Anwar Congo" is still used by Sumatran parents to scare disobedient children.
      He was one of the executioners who killed the "Communists" in Indonesia. It is unbelievable that, nearly half a century later, in this extermination operation that killed one million people, he and the other...

    • Cale 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      A surreal dream woven by lies

      What impressed me the most was that there was a MV that said the person who was killed thanked Anwar for sending himself to heaven and was relieved, and gave him a medal, and Anwar was also very satisfied with this. It seems that the executioners have basically believed the lies that have been...

    The Act of Killing short comments

    • Kennith 2022-04-21 09:03:01

      Very interesting record format, but too messy.

    • Hollie 2022-03-17 09:01:06

      I have seen the most heart-shaking documentary this year. The format of the film makes the document itself a surrealist color, revealing a sense of absurd joy. It is both black and ironic. The executioners played the role of killing and the victims who were killed. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they were still unwilling to admit their sins, and their values ​​were distorted to sorrow. ★★★★

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    The Act of Killing quotes

    • Adi Zulkadry - Fellow Executioner in 1965: We crushed their necks with wood. We hung them. We strangled them with wire. We cut off their heads. We ran them over with cars. We were allowed to do it. And, the proof is we murdered people and were never punished. The people we killed, there's nothing to be done about it. They have to accept it. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better, but it works: I've never felt guilty, never been depressed, never had nightmares.

    • Anwar Congo: Did the people I tortured feel the way I do here? I can feel what the people I tortured felt. Because here my dignity has been destroyed, and then fear come, right there and then. All the terror suddenly possessed my body. It surrounded me, and possessed me.

      Joshua Oppenheimer: Actually, the people you tortured felt far worse, because you knew it's only a film. They knew they were being killed.

      Anwar Congo: But I can feel it, Josh. Really, I feel it. Or have I sinned. I did this to so many people, Josh. Is it all coming back to me? I really hope it won't. I don't want it to, Josh.

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