Event

THE LOOK OF SILENCE Screening and Q&A with Director Joshua Oppenheimer

Screening of THE LOOK OF SILENCE followed by a Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer (THE ACT OF KILLING), moderated by Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA WEEKLY

Date: Tuesday, Nov. 17th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Vidiots Annex

Vidiots Foundation presents a special screening of the powerful, award-winning documentary, "The Look of Silence," directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, produced by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris & Andre Singer.

THE LOOK OF SILENCE is Joshua Oppenheimer's powerful companion piece to the Oscar-nominated THE ACT OF KILLING. Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

Doors will open at 6:30 PM and screening will begin at 7:30 PM.

All proceeds go towards the Vidiots Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the cinematic and media arts in the form of preserving and protecting our collection of over 50,000 rare and classic VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray titles.

Vidiots celebrates cinema and the vitality of independent art through education, archival preservation and accessibility. The Vidiots Foundation connects people to experience evolving media, taking video store culture into the 21st century.

To find out more about membership and supporting our cause, visit us at: vidiotsfoundation.org