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Chronicle of a quest : silence after killing

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Date
2015
Author
Torchin, Leshu
Keywords
Genocide
Testimony
Witnessing
Documentary Film
Indonesia
PN1993 Motion Pictures
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Abstract
After the “flamboyant fever dream” and ontological experimentations of The Act of Killing (2013), Joshua Oppenheimer’s latest film, The Look of Silence comes as something of a shock. A poetic, intimate film, it relies on more traditional documentary styles, interviews and observation in particular. At the same time, the film illustrates the challenges of documentary testimony, both practical (in terms of collection, credibility and deployment) and existential (as a hybrid of truth and fiction). The challenges and oscillation offer a way of expressing the conditions of the survivors, caught between a past they know to be true and the amnesiac historiography that surrounds them. Although such strategies produce a similar destabilization of ontological and epistemological certainty akin to those found in Killing, there is nonetheless a departure as the sobriety confers a moral authority that enables this film to be deployed in social justice projects.
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Torchin , L 2015 , ' Chronicle of a quest : silence after killing ' , Film Quarterly , vol. 69 , no. 2 , pp. 25-35 .
Publication
Film Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0015-1386
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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URL
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2015.69.2.25
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8235

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