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dc.contributor.authorTorchin, Leshu
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-15T15:10:07Z
dc.date.available2016-02-15T15:10:07Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier217780787
dc.identifierb53092d6-0642-43c4-b7d3-bfbdf535e33d
dc.identifier84962206337
dc.identifier.citationTorchin , L 2015 , ' Chronicle of a quest : silence after killing ' , Film Quarterly , vol. 69 , no. 2 , pp. 25-35 .en
dc.identifier.issn0015-1386
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9486-8027/work/66069967
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8235
dc.description.abstractAfter 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.
dc.format.extent638492
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFilm Quarterlyen
dc.subjectGenocideen
dc.subjectTestimonyen
dc.subjectWitnessingen
dc.subjectDocumentary Filmen
dc.subjectIndonesiaen
dc.subjectPN1993 Motion Picturesen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccPN1993en
dc.titleChronicle of a quest : silence after killingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Film Studiesen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2015.69.2.25en


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