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The film was mostly filmed in Medan (pictured 2009). The Act of Killing came to be when Oppenheimer and co-director Christine Cynn went to a Belgian-owned palm plantation nearby Medan, where the female workers were asked to spray the plant killer herbicide to their body; the film that came out of it, The Globalisation Tapes (2003), documents their worries on making a union against the system ...
Still, essential and enraging, “The Act of Killing” is a film that begs to be seen, then never watched again. Best of Variety. The Best Albums of the Decade. Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter.
The film is a companion piece [3] to his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. Executive producers were Werner Herzog , Errol Morris , and Andre Singer . [ 4 ] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards .
The Act of Killing (Indonesian: Jagal) is a 2012 Danish-British-Norwegian documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and an anonymous Indonesian co-director. [1] The film explores the social significance of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 by focusing on the perpetrators and having them produce reenactments of ...
The Act of Killing Between 1965 and 1966, an anti-communist purge took place in Indonesia, a mass killing that historians have estimated a total of 400,000 to 3,000,000 victims.
London-based Spring Films, producers of Oscar nominated and BAFTA-winning 2012 documentary “The Act of Killing,” has signed a joint venture and partnership agreement with U.S.-Europe media ...
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. [1] [2] He is known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014).
Over the course of a celebrated 40-year career, veteran Danish editor Niels Pagh Andersen has worked on critically acclaimed films including Pirjo Honkasalo’s “The 3 Rooms of Melancholia ...