Ask the Filmmaker

On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 1-2 PM ET (10-11 AM PT), Joshua Oppenheimer took your questions on making one of the most lauded documentaries of 2013, and discussed the lessons he's learned and challenges he's faced during his filmmaking career in a live video chat.

This audacious, horrifying, boldly experimental plunge into the mind-set of murderers and the culture of impunity breaks so many rules of documentary decorum that it virtually creates its own genre: investigative improv, perhaps. Or, better yet, Brechtian nonfiction. Whatever you call it, The Act of Killing is a must-see...A brilliant, powerful reckoning with the wages of history, mendacity and denial.

— Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

This feature-length documentary may be one of the most horrifying films you'll ever see, and one of the most edifying.

— Joe Morganstern, The Wall Street Journal

Startling...blending the horrific and the absurd in a disturbing cocktail...it destabilizes our sense of the boundary between make-believe violence and its real-world counterpart...Repellent but also curiously fascinating, as Hannah Arendt's observation about the 'banality of evil' is given a chilling postmodern twist.

— A.O. Scott, The New York Times