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The Act of Killing - Film and Discussion
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May 05, 2014: The Center for Religion, Culture, and Community hosted the film, "The Act of Killing" with discussion. It was shown in its entirety, followed
by a discussion led by Fr. Eko Armada Riyanto, an Indonesian Vincentian
priest, and Dr. Scott Hibbard, a DePaul faculty member from the
Political Science Department. The film was an exploration of key figures
in Indonesia's recent history who were death squad leaders. It
documented the ways in which these individuals were celebrated as heroes,
and the makers of the film challenge them to reenact their real-life
mass-killings in the style of the American movies they loved. The
hallucinatory result was 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.