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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Fantasy
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Nov 07, 2020

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

Distributed
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Nov 07, 2020

'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.

End
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Nov 07, 2020

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Looking
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Nov 07, 2020

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.

Nov 07, 2020

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

Editing
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Nov 07, 2020

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

Collaborating
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Nov 07, 2020

In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Dictatorship
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Nov 07, 2020

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Nov 07, 2020

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Impossible
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Nov 07, 2020

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

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