The Act Of Killing - Directors Cut - With Introduction By Joshua Oppenheimer
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Thu 26 September 2013 // 19:30
Mon 23, Tues 24 and Thu 26 September / 7.30pm / £5/4/3 TTT)
(Joshua Oppenheimer / 2012 / Norway, Denmark, UK / 159 minutes / Certificate 15)
With an extensive introduction by the director Joshua Oppenheimer on Skype. Please note the event will start promptly at 7.30pm.
"I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade... it is unprecedented in the history of cinema." Werner Herzog Small-time gangsters turned killing-squad leaders during the Indonesian anticommunist purge in 1965 are reliving their glory days on the big screen. Their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to star in the kind of films they most love.
They develop fiction scenes re-enacting the killings, adapted to their favourite film genres' gangster; western; musical. The resulting 'documentary of imagination' takes us into the surreal world of the killers' minds, and into a culture that turns mass murderers into popular heroes, talk-show guests and minor celebrities.
This politically subversive, emotionally poignant documentary, executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, challenges the parameters of documentary film-making and is a piece of work that will stay with you long after the lights go down.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3FcB1UZHlg
(Joshua Oppenheimer / 2012 / Norway, Denmark, UK / 159 minutes / Certificate 15)
With an extensive introduction by the director Joshua Oppenheimer on Skype. Please note the event will start promptly at 7.30pm.
"I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade... it is unprecedented in the history of cinema." Werner Herzog Small-time gangsters turned killing-squad leaders during the Indonesian anticommunist purge in 1965 are reliving their glory days on the big screen. Their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to star in the kind of films they most love.
They develop fiction scenes re-enacting the killings, adapted to their favourite film genres' gangster; western; musical. The resulting 'documentary of imagination' takes us into the surreal world of the killers' minds, and into a culture that turns mass murderers into popular heroes, talk-show guests and minor celebrities.
This politically subversive, emotionally poignant documentary, executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, challenges the parameters of documentary film-making and is a piece of work that will stay with you long after the lights go down.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3FcB1UZHlg