# 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.