The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer was born 1974, Texas, USA. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. His award-winning films include These Places We‘ve Learnes to Call Home (1996), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998), The Globalization Tapes (2003) and numerous shorts.     Christine Cynn has been directing documentary and experimental films for the past 14 years. Educated at Harvard, and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Uganda, she co-directed The Globalization Tapes (2003) with Joshua Oppenheimer. She was a researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project.

Joshua Oppenheimer was born 1974, Texas, USA. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. His award-winning films include These Places We‘ve Learnes to Call Home (1996), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998), The Globalization Tapes (2003) and numerous shorts.     Christine Cynn has been directing documentary and experimental films for the past 14 years. Educated at Harvard, and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Uganda, she co-directed The Globalization Tapes (2003) with Joshua Oppenheimer. She was a researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project.

Joshua Oppenheimer was born 1974, Texas, USA. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. His award-winning films include These Places We‘ve Learnes to Call Home (1996), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998), The Globalization Tapes (2003) and numerous shorts.     Christine Cynn has been directing documentary and experimental films for the past 14 years. Educated at Harvard, and the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Uganda, she co-directed The Globalization Tapes (2003) with Joshua Oppenheimer. She was a researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project.