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Joshua Oppenheimer on ‘The Look of Silence’ and Immersive Filmmaking

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Christopher Campbell
Jul 16, 2015
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Joshua Oppenheimer is a singular filmmaker. Masterfully, his vision is articulated not solely on screen but within the viewer himself, in that space between the limit of words and intuition. Reverberating at gut-level, his documentaries are wholly engulfing. There is no swimming to shore.

His latest film, The Look of Silence, is a companion piece to the …

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