{"id":4162,"date":"2015-03-11T21:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2015-04-17T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T02:16:19","slug":"in-praise-of-truefalse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of True\/False"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The True\/False film festival<\/a> just wrapped up in Columbia, Missouri, where I now live and teach. It’s four days of back-to-back documentary films showing all over our city’s centre. There are buskers and parties and panel discussions, but the heart of the event is film. I managed to see 8 this year. The highlight for me was Joshua Oppenheimer’s\u00a0The Look of Silence<\/em><\/a>, which is a sort of follow up to The Act of Killing<\/em>. Both films examine the perpetrators of massacres in Indonesia in the 1960s. The Look of Silence<\/em>\u00a0documents a series of encounters between victims’ families and perpetrators. It’s a thoughtful, quiet and quite excruciating meditation on forgiveness, inheritance, fear, power, confrontation, memory and forgetting. For me, the film was a great gift. I’ve been working on (struggling with) a book on similar themes, if from a different time and place. Oppenheimer has fed my thinking in unanticipated ways.<\/p>\n

Other great films I saw included: Bitter Lake<\/a>, Tales of the Grim Sleeper<\/a>, <\/em>and (T)Error<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of doc films or creative nonfiction in any form, consider making the trip to the True\/False Film Festival. I promise it will be worth your while.<\/p>\n

[Photo:\u00a0Glenn Rice]<\/p>\n

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