The Act of Killing

International night

DOC LOUNGE LUND proudly presents INTERNATIONAL NIGHT – with a screening of the award winning documentary THE ACT OF KILLING and special guest Mason C Hoadley. The Act of Killing recently won the award for BEST NORDIC DOCUMENTARY at Nordisk Panorama, among many other awards.

In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, The Act of Killing is an unprecedented film that, according to The Los Angeles Times, “could well change how you view the documentary form.”

Guest: Professor Emeritus Mason C. Hoadley introduce the film and give a short background speech on the killings in Indonesia in 1965-66.

Mason C. Hoadley, b. 1939, Bloomington, Indiana.
Education at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and docent at Uppsala. Taught Bahasa Indonesia and Southeast Asian History at LU since 1988. Publications includes institutional history of Java, ‘Islamization’, and  corruption, along with articles on Indonesian and Malay literature. Most recently involved in a project focusing on the conflict in Patani (Moslem, Malay-speaking southern provinces of Thailand). Special interest in the events of 1965-66, some of which were were observed while traveling in Java at that time.