Joshua Oppenheimer’s, “The Act of Killing,” is a film about the 1965, U.S. backed Indonesian Military Coup and
the resulting genocide which killed an estimated 1 million people.
Mixing elements of documentary and narrative, Oppenheimer interviews
many of the major players involved in the massacre, asking them to
fictionalize their atrocities as staged reenactments before the camera.
The result is a surreal, darkly comic, and frightening examination of
the human spirit.
The Act of Killing is the seventh film in
the P.O.V. Series which meets each MONTH in the Skyline Room of Tapp's
Art Center to discuss films of varying eras, styles, and genres from
around the world.
Cost: $7.00