Steven Okazaki’s Oscar-nominated The Conscience of Nhem En and Errol Morris‘ Standard Operating Procedure (above) will screen as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, May 26, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free. Directed and produced by Okazaki, The Conscience of Nhem En tells the story of a young soldier responsible for taking the ID photos of thousands of people before they were tortured and killed by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. The Conscience of Nhem En received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject. Directed [...]...
- 5/20/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Steven Okazaki’s Oscar®-nominated documentary short The Conscience of Nhem En is profoundly distressing for reminding that Hannah Arendt’s conception of the “banality of evil” is as global a phenomenon as it is a human one and no less a threat in the machinations of warfare today as yesterday. Our’s is the constant task to remember and resist such inhumanity. Arendt’s understanding of the complicity that supports man’s officious inhumanity to man aligns with filmmaker Okazaki’s thematic concerns with the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. When he and I spoke on the occasion of his Emmy®-award winning White Light, Black Rain, Okazaki expressed his upset with a historicity that excludes the testimonials of survivors of horrific events; an exclusion he deemed “disturbing” if not “racist.” Such exclusions avoid the fascinating and tragic human story and—for his part—talking about survivors and allowing...
- 7/8/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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