The look of silence

Author

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer

Call Number

• DVD 959.8 L8633 (CEN, WSQ)

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Languages

In Indonesian/Javanese, with English subtitles.

Performers

Adi Rukun.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Cinedigm Entertainment

Physical Description

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material involving disturbing graphic descriptions of atrocities and inhumanity.

Summary

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. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a documentary in 2014.

Special features: Audio commentary with director Joshua Oppenheimer and executive producer Errol Morris ; Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer and executive producer Werner Herzog from the 2015 Berlin Film Festival ; footage from the Indonesian premiere of The Look of Silence including a Q&A with protagonist Adi Rukun ; a conversation about The Look of Silence with director Joshua Oppenheimer ; trailer.