Film Screening:

The Look of Silence
(Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015, 103 min, Denmark/Indonesia, in Indonesian w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)

-- Introduced by Prof. Edmund Malesky (Political Science); Q&A to follow!

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 both instigates and bears witness to the ending of fifty years of silence.

-- Nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 2016 Academy Awards!

-- "The Look of Silence is a wholly conceived, self-contained work with emotional and moral firepower all its own." -- Los Angeles Times

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)