The Act of Killing: A film by Joshua Oppenheimer

3 March 2016 | Jefferson 218 | 7:30 p.m.

In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant Indonesian death squad leaders to dramatize their roles in genocide. 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. Expanding on his earlier lecture, Bradley Simpson will comment on and answer questions about the film.