It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. Oppenheimer’s new film, “The Look of Silence,” is a deliberate companion piece to “Killing,” and it too is strong and upsetting. Morris has directed over 1000 television commercials, including campaigns for Apple, Citibank, Cisco Systems, Intel, American Express, Nike, Target, General Motors, Levis and Miller High Life. (The Look of Silence was shot over a period of years, both before and after the filming of The Act of Killing.) Adi’s quest never yields the answers he’s looking for. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 96% approval rating, and an average rating of 8.8/10, based on 136 reviews. Zijn moeder leeft nog altijd met het verleden en zijn vader heeft een ernstige ziekte en is dement. Maria Kristensen, Lina Wichmann, Post Production Services It is up against stiff competition against 'Amy', but this documentary deserves the Oscar. Festival Distribution Morris's latest book, A Wilderness of Error:  The Trial of Jeffrey MacDonald was released September, 2012 (Paperback: January, 2014). Catherine Corman, Christine Cynn, David Cynn, Jhin Cynn, Won Cynn, Mark Danner, Lotte Grauballe, Alfred Guzzetti, Usman Hamid, Taufiq Hanafi, Sidsel Hansen, It was selected for screening in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015. His previous book, Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, was also a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times notable book of 2011. Topics Indonesian mass killings. Henrik Garnov, Line Producers Read critic reviews. Lyrics: Sakti Alamsyah Elinor Kowarsky, Anne Marie Kurstein, Nurlaela Lamasitudju, Max Lane, Nikolai Lang, Prix Étudiants - Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2015 Courtesy of Irama Record The website's critical consensus states, "The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking – yet just as terribly compelling – companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing". It appears in lieu of actual names, allowing members of the crew—five assistant directors, several drivers, a gaffer—to conceal their involvement in the movie. Nothing will wake the dead. In 2011 he directed They Were There, a film to commemorate IBM’s Centennial. His work has been the subject of a full retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1999. Grand Prize (DOX Award) - CPH:DOX 2014 Prize of the Danish Arts Council - 2014 Geoff Petts, Iwan Meulia, Yosep Adi Prasetyo, Pirous, R. Puspitasari, Karen Ranucci, Arief Adityawan Sosrojudho, Gordon Spragg, Gabby Stein, Thomas Stenderup, The film is a companion piece to his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. Oppenheimer is a partner at Final Cut for Real in Denmark, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster in London. Even so, “The Look of Silence” is far from idealistic. Audience Award - Best Film, Festival Favorites - SXSW Film Festival 2015 Since then, The Look of Silence has received the Danish Academy Award for Best Documentary and the prestigious Danish Arts Council Award. Produced by Anne Köhncke, Maria Kristensen, Heidi Elise Christensen, Joram Ten Brink, Co-producers of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, who are living as heroes. The Look of Silence received critical acclaim. Anonymous, Anonymous, Production Managers A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. As an independent producer, he established Café Productions and later West Park Pictures (now a DCD Media owned company). Cinephil – Philippa Kowarsky VPRO – Nathalie Windhorst Addeddate 2017-09-14 23:36:43 Identifier The_Look_Of_Silence Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3. Showing all 4 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Synopsis (1) Summaries. Danida Following his eviscerating, Oscarwinning documentary The Act Of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer returns to point his camera's unblinking eye at the perpetrators of Indonesia's 1960s genocide. Morris also directed short films for the 2002 and 2007 Academy Awards as well as for charitable and political organizations such as Stand Up to Cancer and Moveon.org. prisrob 02 … A middle-aged Indonesian man, whose brother was brutally murdered in the 1965 purge of communists, confronts the men who carried out the killings. Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary. YLE – Iikka Vehkalahti Very Special Thanks Mariko Montpetit, Sound Editor and Mix Produced in collaboration with On 10 December 2014, International Human Rights Day, there were 480 public screenings of the film across Indonesia. CEO of Spring Films Ltd of London and President of The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. Oppenheimer hoped the Oscar buzz the film was generating would pressure the US government to formally acknowledge its collusion in the killings.[15][16][17]. Lars Johansson, Søren Henrik Jørgensen, Simon Kilmurry, Claire Kessie, Laura Kim, Don Quixote Prize - Tromsø International Film Festival 2015 NR2154, Motion Graphics Artist, Emil Thorbjørnsson, Lawyers NRK – Tore Tomter Oscar®-nominated film director and recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” (2015-2019). In the wake of yet another mass killing in the U.S., there are many lessons to be learned by watching Joshua Oppenheimer’s brilliant documentary ‘The Look of Silence.’ Lucy Davis, Laurin Dietrich, Nia Dinata, Tony Dowmunt, Edwin, Gareth Evans. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. Nordisk Film & TV Fond – Film consultant Karolina Lidin You might also like. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a graduate student at Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley. Making Movies Oy The Look of Silence does something similar, as when the men who killed Adi’s brother, Ramli, give Oppenheimer a graphic tour of the riverside where they committed that and countless other murders. The film was screened in the official competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival,[6][7] where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (FEDEORA), as well as the Human Rights Nights Award. Anonymous, Anonymous, Drivers Prix de la Critique - Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2015 Morris’ films have won many awards, including an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, an Emmy, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, the Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Horse at the Taiwan International Film Festival and the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. Courtesy of NBC Universal Archives, Music The Look of Silence captures the lack of closure from the 65’-66’ mass killings with more disturbing humanism balanced with gut-wrenching tenderness compared to its more popular companion piece, The Act of Killing. ", "Shocking...[an] anguishing new light...cast on the darkest reaches of human evil. He ran the BBC Documentary Department’s Independent Unit in the 1990’s where he founded the award-winning documentary strand Fine Cut (now Storyville). The Look of Silence A film by Joshua Oppenheimer Watch Now. André was Editor of Granada Television’s Disappearing World series during the 1980's. Making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators. 60 other awards); The Human Scale, (2012), by Andreas Dalsgaard, The Kid and the Clown (2011), by Ida Grøn and Football is God (2010), by Ole Bendtzen. His debut feature film, The Act of Killing (2012, 159 min and 117 min), was named Film of the Year in the 2013 by the Guardian and the Sight and Sound Film Poll, and won 72 international awards, including the European Film Award 2013, BAFTA 2014, Asia Pacific Screen Award 2013, Berlinale Audience Award 2013, and Guardian Film Award 2014 for Best Film. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as Aguirre der Zorn Gottes (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, 1972), Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht (NOSFERATU, 1978), FITZCARRALDO (1982), Lektionen in Finsternis (LESSONS OF DARKNESS, 1992), LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997), Mein liebster Feind (MY BEST FIEND, 1999), INVINCIBLE (2000), GRIZZLY MAN (2005), ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007), Die Höhle der vergessenen Träume (CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, 2010). With Adi Rukun, M.Y. THE LOOK OF SILENCE Director: JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER The Oscar®-nominated The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer's powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing.Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. Katrine Larney, Brith Larsen, Tim League, Liga Mahasiswa Untuk Demokrasi, International Sales Agent Executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Andre Singer. He visits some of the killers and their collaborators—including his uncle—under the pretense of an eye exam. The encounters with the killers remain just as chilling. The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking -- yet just as terribly compelling -- companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing. Due to the nature of this film it has unfortunately been necessary to credit this remarkable collaborator as Anonymous. The Danish Film Institute The Look of Silence Awards and Nominations. Wild Dreamer Award - Subversive Film Festival 2015 Roger Ebert has said, “After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more…Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini.”. Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Although none of the killers expresses any remorse, the daughter of one of them is clearly shaken when she hears, apparently for the first time, the details of the killings. Wel in de wereld van de slachtoffers, maar hoe hij zich voelt kon ik me al een beetje inbeelden. Jens-Georg Hansen, Lyberg & Partnere, Archive Material The Look of Silence is a documentary film from director Joshua Oppenheimer. Developed with support of Signe has produced documentaries since 1998, first at SPOR Media (1998-2004), then at Final Cut Productions (2004-2008), and then she founded Final Cut for Real in 2009. Final Cut for Real ApS, Co-produced by Nordisk  Film Shortcut, Office Manager (Norway) Online Critics Prize (Mouse d’Oro) - Best Film of Venice Film Festival 2014 The Look of Silence maakt gebruik van deze oudere beelden maar filmt ook de confrontaties die Adi aangaat met de daders van toen. Andrea Zimmerman, Daniel Ziv, Slavoj Zizek, Arief Zulkifli, Slavoj Zizek. Human Rights Nights Award - Venice Film Festival 2014 The Look of Silence (2014) Plot. He has been responsible for several hundred hours of factual programs for the international TV market and producer or executive producer of fourteen films with Werner Herzog since Lessons of Darkness in 1992. Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, André Singer, Associate Producers She did EURODOC in 2003 and EAVE in 2010. Best World Documentary (Cinephile Prize) - Busan International Film Festival 2014 Katrine Schlüther Schierbeck, Else Helland, Accounting Mana Tahan (traditional) Arash Setoodeh, Noga Shalev, James Shapiro, John Sidel, Adinda Simandjuntak, Amnesty International Award - Docs Barcelona 2015 Ene Katrine Rasmussen, Marlene Schiött Rasmussen, Ayu Ratih, Michael Ratner, Best Director (Baltic Gaze) - Vilnius International Film Festival 2015 Recommended. Dede Oetomo, Barbara Oppenheimer, Carol Oppenheimer, Joe Oppenheimer, Toko Buku Buruh Membaca, Dian Septi Trisnanti, Bilven Ultimus, Bedjo Untung, Tore Kristian Tjemsland, Pauli Aaltonen, Beierholm, Jan Arildslund and Morten Staghøj, Insurance Oscar®-nominated producer and CEO at Final Cut for Real, which she founded with Anne Köhncke in 2009. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles. In The Look of Silence is het woord aan een … Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong. Morton Simon, Samuel Simon, Bradley Simpson, Ronen Skaletzky, Stephen Smith, The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. Aase Mikkelsen, Jodi Miller, Robb Moss, Elisabeth Ida Mulyani, Suciwati Munir, Ook filmt Oppenheim de hoogbejaarde ouders van Adi. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Look of Silence (2014) is a tough movie to watch, but it is crucial for understanding how anyone could do something so vile. Maybe the film is a monument to silence—a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken. 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Making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators. Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. The follow up, THE LOOK OF SILENCE, unbuttons the victims from their caged-in trauma through one Adi Rukun. Todung Mulya Lubis, Lena Lundt, Irene Lusztig, Olga Lydia, Elise McCave, Born as a consolation to his mother’s grief over the loss of her son Ramli in the anti-communist purge, Adi can no longer live his life in darkening silence as his family Bojana Makavejev, Dusan Makavejev, Valentin Manz, Soe Tjen Marching, Signe Byrge Sørensen has a master degree in International Development Studies and Communication Studies, RUC, (1998). The result, The Look of Silence, is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror – a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken. ", "One of the best films of the year...a genuine piece of art. Out of concern for his safety, the man is not fully identified in the film and is credited only as "anonymous," as are many of the film's crew positions. May Adadol Ingawanij, Jemi Irwansyah, Janus Billeskov Jansen, Raharja Waluya Jati, "Piercingly and authentically horrifying"; "a must-see... arresting and important film-making". Anonymous, Kaarle Aho, Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Additional Camera The film is a companion piece[3] to his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. In het prijswinnende The Act of Killing interviewde hij een aantal daders, die door de huidige Indonesische regering nog altijd als helden worden beschouwd. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. Seri Banang (traditional) Oscar®-nominated film director and considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema. Audience Award - Documenta Madrid 2015 Audience Award - Best Film - Festival d'Angers 2015 Danish Film Critics Association Prize for Best Documentary (Bodil Prize) - 2015 Oscar®-winning film director and recipient of five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Audience Award - Movies That Matter Festival 2015 Peace Film Prize - Berlin Film Festival 2015 Tine Fischer, Forum Buruh Lintas Pabrik , Kim Foss, Maxyne Franklin, The Look Of Silence. 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