Joshua Oppenheimer on Chatty Killers in his Oscar Nom’d Doc The Act of Killing

When filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer set out to document the aftermath of what he calls “one of the biggest killings in human history,” he started with the survivors. But it is the killers who speak in his Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, a film that reinterprets the documentary. “Documentary implies that we’re documenting a pre-existing ...