The Mitchell Cobey Lecture on Cinema: Joshua Oppenheimer

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February 28, 2025 | 7:00PM

Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201

Joshua Oppenheimer, acclaimed director known for such titles as The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), will deliver the annual Cinema and Media Studies Mitchell Cobey Lecture on Cinema on the second day of a two-day celebration of the director’s work and legacy.

Joshua Oppenheimer is an American-born British film director known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) and Gold Hugo-winning film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997), as well as The Globalisation Tapes (2003) and numerous short documentaries. Oppenheimer was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship and a 1997 Marshall Scholar. Oppenheimer received his PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship. He is Professor of Film at the University of Westminster.