Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and mass violence are among the defining features of modernity, the former is significantly implicated in the latter, and the nature of this implication is the book's central focus.
This book brings together a range of newly commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan. Contributors explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and performance, the function of moving images in the execution of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to, recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and symbolically annihilate them
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- (DE)ACTIVATING EMPATHY
- Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, and "Humanitarian Intervention"
- Shooting with Intent: Framing Conflict
- Immersion (2009): 2 videos, colour, sound, 20 minutes (loop)
- Anaesthetising the Image: Immersion, Harun Farcocki
- Revisiting Rocha's "Aesthetics of Violence"
- MEMORY OF VIOLENCE: VIsualising Trauma
- Battle for History: Appropriating the Past in the Present
- Subverting Dominant Historical Narratives: Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, Avi Mograbi
- Re-Enactment, The History of Violence and Documentary Film
- Interpreting Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave
- Remediating Genocidal Images Into Artworks: The Case of the Tuol Sleng Mug Shots
- Screening the 1965 Violence
- 'Ca Va de Soi': The Visual representation of Violence in the Holocaust Documentary
- Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir
- Animating Trauma: Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky
- Spaces of Violence: History, Horror and the Cinema of Kyotoshi Kurosawa
- On Historical Violence and Aesthetic Form: Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 Neuf Zero
- PERFORMING VIOLENCE
- Perpetrators' Testimony and the Restoration of Humanity: S21, Rithy Panh
- The Killer's Search for Absolution: Z32, Avi Mograbi
- Impunity
- Show of Force: A Cineman-Seance of Power and Violence in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
- Misunderstanding Images: Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris
- Index
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