6 MAY 2017 AND 7 MAY 2017 | FILM SCREENING | CINEMAGHAR IN COLLABORATION WITH DRISHTI

FILM: THE ACT OF KILLING | 6 MAY 2017

The Act of Killing is a shocking but vital film that tracks one of the leading executioners in Indonesia’s genocide against communists and ethnic Chinese that took place in 1965-66. In this, you will see the perpetrators of the genocide brag about their rapes and killings and also filming each other re-enacting what they did at the time. This is not fictionalized storytelling. The people in the documentary are those who actually killed 500,000 Indonesians. This is difficult but essential viewing for all of us to know what we are capable of as human beings and the power of storytelling to change it.

FILM: THE LOOK OF SILENCE | 7 MAY 2017

The Look Of Silence is a film that tracks the victims of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia and gets one victim, in particular, an eye doctor called Adi to confront his perpetrators on the pretext of examining their eyes. It is an impossibly delicate story that unravels before your eyes where the victim wants to speak to the individuals who destroyed his life in order to be able to forgive them, and the perpetrators can no longer look away from their crimes. 

Both the films were curated by Ravati Laul as part of her residency at Conflictorium.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES