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- Price
- Pay As You Feel (£3/£5/£7)
- Audience type
- 15+
- Running time
- 2 hours 2 minutes
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
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Event description
Join us at Arts Centre Washington this November for a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal and searing document of evil – The Act of Killing.
In 1965, Anwar Congo and his paramilitary death squad were responsible for the murder and torture of over a million of their countrymen in Indonesia’s anti-communist purge. Heralded a national hero in the ensuing forty years, Congo is more than happy when an American filmmaker asks him to re-enact of his crimes in a range of Hollywood styles – that’s until he must reckon with his conscious.
The Act of Killing offers an insight into the memories and imaginations of war criminals who have won, highlighting a frighteningly banal culture of impunity in which killers can joke about crimes against humanity on television chat shows.
Sunderland Film Club
This screening is part of Sunderland Film Club – Wearside’s documentary and independent focused community cinema, hosting monthly screenings, talks and workshops at Arts Centre Washington and Port Independent.
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
