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Joshua Oppenheimer Podcasts
17 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Joshua Oppenheimer. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Joshua Oppenheimer, often where they are interviewed.
17 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Joshua Oppenheimer. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Joshua Oppenheimer, often where they are interviewed.
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How much should we care? With Patti Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Joshua Oppenheimer, Farhana Yamin, Julia Samuels and Wade Davis
In this final season episode of Who Cares Wins, Lily explores the overwhelm and grief that can come with climate action. But conversely, if we truly understand the destruction that is taking place, why do we continue with business as usual? Are many of us living in denial? We hear from poet-songwriter Patti Smith about what she learned from the Dalai Lama. Writer Jonathan Safran Foer discusses the emphatic leap required; and film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer shares what he learnt about cognitive dissonance when filming The Act of Killing, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions. Lily also speaks with climate activist and lawmaker Farhana Yamin about her journey to and through eco-grief, and psychologist Julia Samuels discusses her clinical experience of eco-grief and anxiety, and tools we might use to lesson overwhelm. Finally, Wade Davis offers wisdom from Tibet.
You can find out more about Farhana Yamin and Jonathan Safran Foer, as well as many of the themes explored in this episode, in Lily’s book, Who Cares Wins, which is out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook.
Audible: https://bit.ly/3jwS8UH
Waterstones: https://bit.ly/30OsUtr
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With thanks to the How to Academy for allowing us the use of the interview with Jonathan Safran Foer. How to Academy have their own weekly podcast featuring some of the world's leading thinkers - available to stream from How To Academy dot com or wherever you get your podcasts.
And thanks to Yeti Television for allowing us the use of the interview with Patti Smith, as well as to Liz Friend, the Producer and Director of the interview.
Please find a reading list and more information from our featured guests:
Jonathan Safran Foer: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/310/310101/we-are-the-weather/9780241984918.html
Joshua Oppenheimer: https://shop.bfi.org.uk/joshua-oppenheimer-12-early-works.html
Julia Samuels: https://www.waterstones.com/book/this-too-shall-pass/julia-samuel/9780241348864
Wade Davis: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
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The Act of Killing (2012) - Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
This week on the podcast Ryan and Ty cover their first documentary, The Act of Killing. This heavy film brings up topics of the media's role in perception, empathy of killers, and who writes the rules of history. Join us as we dig into this film on what humans are capable of, and how they can be treated after perpetrated heinous acts. Contact us at rollitpodcast@gmail.com or follow us!
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Music by Ethan Rapp
Heartland Podcast: Olafur Eliasson & Joshua Oppenheimer
The seventh TALK in Heartland Podcast is a live conversation that took place at Heartland in 2017. It's called On Art and Responsibility.
The conversation is between the renowed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and the Academy Award nominated documentarist Joshua Oppenheimer.
The talk is about how art can raise awareness of political and cultural issues and whether or not this is the artists' responsibility.
The talk is moderated by Danish film director and consultant at the Danish Film Institute Mikkel Munch-Fals.
Murmur 71 : Joshua Oppenheimer "The Scarecrow's Dilemma"
SUBJECT : INTELLIGENCE The two edges of "Intelligence" -- one, steeped in curiosity, humility, and understanding; the other, in fear, judgement, and power. Which will you choose and how will you apply it? Here, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer carves us a path; including the taxonomy of "genius", "master", "masterpiece"; and whether or not art can in fact increase one's "Intelligence".
Joshua Oppenheimer: Why Filmmakers Shouldn't Chase Impact
Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world.
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He is a two-time Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Oppenheimer has a Bachelor of Arts-degree summa cum laude in filmmaking from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London.
Oppenheimer spent 12 years in Indonesia and returned with two internationally praised documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) & The Look of Silence (2014), both challenged the documentary film form and shed new light on the minds behind The Indonesian Genocide of 1965-1966.
- 01:30 How films can change both the world and the people in and behind them.
- 02:20 - The true impact of films
- 07:05 The psychology of perpetrators
- 10:40 What screenwriters and narrative filmmakers can learn about real villains
- 12:20 Advice to narrative filmmakers to have their films make more impact
- 15:15 Protecting the artist from his/her impact
- 19:00 On film criticism and understanding how a film works on an audience
- 20:35 On motivation, risk-taking and finding your path
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#3: Joshua Oppenheimer
The Look of Silence is a companion piece to The Act of Killing - both films were nominated for Oscars. Oppenheimer visited Columbia Journalism School last year to show the film and to talk about it afterwards, as part of our Film Fridays documentary series.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Please do catch this rare opportunity as I interview the man behind the Oscar nominated The Act of Killing and the soon to be released The Look of Silence.
Werner Herzog says, “I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade… It is unprecedented in the history of cinema.” Join me as Joshua and I talk about what art is all about, why we have a responsibility not to despair, how he is trying to address the “most urgent questions” and about why he is still hopeful.
Biography
Born 1974, Texas, USA. Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London, his award-winning films include The Globalization Tapes (2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998, Gold Hugo, Chicago Film Festival), These Places We’ve Learned To Call Home (1996, Gold Spire, San Francisco Film Festival) and numerous shorts. Oppenheimer is Senior Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project and has published widely on these themes.
Filmography (Forthcoming)
THE LOOK OF SILENCE
Filmography (as Director)
SHOW OF FORCE (short, 2007)
THE GLOBALIZATION TAPES (documentary, co-directed with Christine Cynn, 2003)
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (short, co-directed with Christine Cynn, 2001)
THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE (50 mins, 1997; Gold Hugo, Chicago Film Festival, 1998; Telluride Film Festival, 1997; Best Experimental Film, New England, 1998)
THESE PLACES WE’VE LEARNED TO CALL HOME (short, 1997; Gold Spire, San Francisco FilmFestival, 1997)
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The Look of Silence: Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer
Adi was born in 1968, two years after his brother Ramli was slaughtered in front of many eyewitnesses. Now an optometrist, Adi lives with his elderly parents and his children. Not only does he live under the ongoing rule of his brother’s killers, but he must listen to his children regurgitate the propaganda that instigated the killing, and is still being perpetuated in schools.
Adi decides to confront some of the perpetrators of the genocide, who are surprised when his questions are more probing than Oppenheimer‘s. His breaking of the silence leads to some electrifying scenes, in a film where the beauty of the Indonesian landscape belies the bone-chilling horrors carried out there in the name of democracy.
Radically different to Oppenheimer’s previous film, The Look of Silence is equally shocking and keenly observed. Filmed in his characteristic visual style, the film bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
“One of the greatest and most powerful documentaries ever made. A profound comment on the human condition.” – Errol Morris
“Profound, visionary, stunning.” – Werner Herzog
Joshua Oppenheimer Masterclass
Joshua Oppenheimer's films include the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing (2012), and the companion piece The Look of Silence (2014) - winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 2014 Venice Film Festival. He is the artistic director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster and has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. In this in-depth masterclass, BBC1 Film Programme critic Danny Leigh, unpicks Joshua's methods and motivations and explore the meaning of his controversial and boundary-pushing films.
