WATCH: Werner Herzog‬ and ‘The Look of Silence’ director Joshua Oppenheimer ‘Times Talks’ Conversation

Acclaimed director Werner Herzog and The Look of Silence filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer discuss the evolution of the documentary in this fascinating “Times Talks” conversation taped Monday at the Sundance Film Festival. New York Times Op–Docs producer and curator Kathleen Lingo conducts the interview.

Herzog is an executive producer on The Look of Silence, 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.

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