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Performative Documentaries

This collection is dedicated to films which explore and emphasize the notion of performance. Either employed strategically or implicitly by the film’s subjects, in order to provoke or to resolve, in ways of resistance or a form of compliance, performance emerges as a major means to pursue social truths and social change.

New Currents Collections
Especially curated by Film Platform, aim to explore new directions and developments in documentary craftsmanship. They are organized according to major aesthetic trends and fields of influence which permeate documentary filmmaking today.

Films in this subject

Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
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Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
Delving behind the headlines with Femen, the world's most provocative feminist movement, Ukraine's "topless crusaders"
Director: Kitty Green
Language: Russian, Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 78 min.
Year of production: 2013
Activism Gender Human Rights Russian Cinema and Culture Sexuality Society Ukraine Women
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Art/Violence
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Art/Violence
Inspired by characters from "Alice in Wonderland," "Waiting for Godot" and "Antigone," young Palestinian actresses deal with the military occupation and gender oppression, violence and grief, on stage and in life.
Director: Batoul Taleb | Udi Aloni | Mariam Abu Khaled
Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 75 min.
Year of production: 2013
Arts and Culture Conflicts Current Affairs Gender Law and Justice Middle Eastern Studies Politics Women
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The Act Of Killing
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The Act Of Killing
In this chilling and inventive Oscar nominated documentary, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Language: Indonesian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 159 min.
Year of production: 2012
Asian Studies Author's POV Conflicts Crime Ethnography Genocide History Hybrid Law and Justice Politics Society
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The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return
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The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return
With humor, irony and the unconventional fusion of different genre styles, the film tells the story of a Romanian worker who realizes his Jewish roots can change his life.
Director: David Ofek
Language: Hebrew, Romanian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 54 min.
Year of production: 2008
Creative Globalization Hybrid Immigration and Migration Jewish Studies Labor Middle Eastern Studies Society
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The Look of Silence
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The Look of Silence
In this highly-anticipated companion to The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer offers another haunting look at the Indonesian genocide, this time from the perspective of the victims.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Language: Indonesian, Javanese (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 99 min.
Year of production: 2014
Asian Studies Cinema Conflicts Ethnography Family Genocide Human Rights Investigative Journalism Law and Justice Politics Society
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