Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born 23 September 1974 in Texas, US) is an American film director based in London, UK.

Oppenheimer's films push the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Influenced by the experimental montage of his mentor, Dusan Makavejev, his first feature film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997) won a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival (1998)^[1] and premiered at the 1997 Telluride Film Festival.

From 2004 to 2008, he produced a series of films in Indonesia.

Contents 1 Education 2 Filmography 3 Books 4 References 5 External links

Education

Joshua Oppenheimer received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in filmmaking from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship.

Filmography

• Hugh (1995)
• These Places We've Learned to Call Home (1996)
• The Challenge of Manufacturing (1997)
• The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997)
• The Globalisation Tapes (2003)
• A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches (2003)
• Market Update (2003)
• Postcard from Sun City, Arizoina (2004)
• Muzak: a tool of management (2004)
• Show of Force (2007)
• Several Consequences of the Decline of Industry in the Industrialised World (2008)

Books

• Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs & Politics (Acting on AIDS). London & New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997, ISBN 1852425539, ISBN 978-1852425531. (With Helena Reckitt, co-editor.)

• Going through the motions and becoming other. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Chanan, Michael, (ed.) Visible evidence. Wallflower Press, 2007. London, UK. (In Press)

• History and Histrionics: Vision Machine's Digital Poetics. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Marchessault, Janine and Lord, Susan, (eds.) Fluid screens, expanded cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2007, Toronto, Canada, pp. 167–183. ISBN 9780802092977.

• Show of force: a cinema-séance of power and violence in Sumatra's plantation belt. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In Critical Quarterly, Volume 51, No 1, April 2009, pp. 84–110. Edited by: Colin MacCabe. Blackwell Publishing, 2009. ISSN 0011-1562.

References

1. ^ Awards for The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase. Internet Movie Database.

External links

Joshua Oppenheimer at the Internet Movie Database

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