Joshua Oppenheimer

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This article is about the Denmark-based filmmaker. For the American screenwriter, see Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer.

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Joshua Oppenheimer
File:Joshua Oppenheimer 2015.jpg
Oppenheimer in 2015
Born (1974-09-23) September 23, 1974 (age 50)
Austin, Texas, United States
Residence Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality American
Education B.A., PhD
Alma mater Harvard University
University of the Arts London
Occupation Film director
Years active 1995–present
Notable work The Act of Killing
The Look of Silence
Awards MacArthur Fellowship
Marshall Scholarship

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an Oscar-nominated[1] American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2][3] Oppenheimer is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award[4] and a 1997 Marshall Scholar.[5]

Life and career

Oppenheimer was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in and around Washington, D.C. and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Oppenheimer received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) summa cum laude in filmmaking from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship. He is currently a Reader in documentary film at the University of Westminster.

His first film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997) won a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival (1998)[6]

From 2004 to 2012, he produced a series of films in Indonesia. His debut feature film about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66, The Act of Killing (2012), premiered at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival. It went on to win many prizes world-wide, including the European Film Award for Best Documentary, a Panorama Audience Award, and a Prize of the Ecumenical Jury from the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.[7] The film also received the Robert Award by the Film Academy of Denmark, a Bodil Award by Denmark's National Association of Film Critics,[8] and the Aung San Suu Kyi Award at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013[9]

Oppenheimer appeared on The Daily Show on August 13, 2013 to talk about The Act of Killing.[10]

The Act of Killing won the BAFTA for Best Documentary, European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.[11]

Oppenheimer's next film, The Look of Silence (2014) is a companion piece to The Act of Killing. It was screened in competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival[12][13] and 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) for the Best Film of Venezia 71, as well as the Human Rights Nights Award.[14] Since then, it has gone on to win a further 35 international awards (as of August 2015).

During a 2015 appearance on Democracy Now! Oppenheimer stated that "the United States provided aid, weapons, money" to the Indonesian military "so that they could carry out this genocide."[15] In 2014, after a screening of The Act of Killing for US Congress members, Oppenheimer called on the US to acknowledge its role in the killings.[16]

Filmography

  • Hugh (1995)
  • These Places We've Learned to Call Home (1996)
  • The Challenge of Manufacturing (1997)
  • The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997)
  • The Globalisation Tapes (2003) (a collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra (Indonesia), the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF), and Vision Machine (Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Uwemedimo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman)
  • A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches (2003)
  • Market Update (2003)
  • Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (2004)
  • Muzak: a tool of management (2004)
  • Show of Force (2007)
  • Several Consequences of the Decline of Industry in the Industrialised World (2008)
  • The Act of Killing (2012)
  • The Look of Silence (2014)

Books

  • Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs & Politics (Acting on AIDS). London & New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997, ISBN 1-85242-553-9, ISBN 978-1-85242-553-1. (With Helena Reckitt, co-editor.)
  • Going through the motions and becoming other. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Chanan, Michael, (ed.) Visible evidence. Wallflower Press, 2007. London, UK. (In Press)
  • History and Histrionics: Vision Machine's Digital Poetics. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Marchessault, Janine and Lord, Susan, (eds.) Fluid screens, expanded cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2007, Toronto, Canada, pp. 167–183. ISBN 978-0-8020-9297-7.
  • Show of force: a cinema-séance of power and violence in Sumatra's plantation belt. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In Critical Quarterly, Volume 51, No 1, April 2009, pp. 84–110. Edited by: Colin MacCabe. Blackwell Publishing, 2009. ISSN 0011-1562.
  • Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence. (With Joram Ten Brink, co-author). Columbia University Press (Feb 28, 2013), ISBN 0231163347, ISBN 978-0231163347

References

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  2. ↑ "They're desperately trying to run away from the reality of what they've done," says Oppenheimer, a 38-year-old Harvard graduate now based in Copenhagen The Guardian
  3. ↑ Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer "Originally hailing from Texas, Joshua Oppenheimer now makes his home in Copenhagen, Denmark" Bomblog
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/arts/macarthur-awards-go-to-21-diverse-fellows.html New York Times 2014 Sep 17
  5. ↑ http://www.marshallscholarship.org/news/view?id=41&x[0]=news/list
  6. ↑ Awards for The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase. Internet Movie Database.
  7. ↑ Awards from 63rd Berlin International Film Festival for The Act of Killing. Internet Movie Database.
  8. ↑ Robert Award & 66th Bodil Awards for The Act of Killing. Internet Movie Database.
  9. ↑ Aung San Suu Kyi Award. Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013
  10. ↑ Joshua Oppenheimer Extended Interview. The Daily Show.
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  15. ↑ "The Look of Silence": Will New Film Force U.S. to Acknowledge Role in 1965 Indonesian Genocide? Democracy Now! August 3, 2015.
  16. ↑ Sabarini, Prodita (16 February 2014). Director calls for US to acknowledge its role in 1965 killings. The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 3 August 2014.

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