Birth name
     Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer
Date of birth
     23 September 1974, Texas, US

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Joshua Oppenheimer (123 September 1974 in Texas, US)

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) and premiered at the 1997 Telluride Film Festival.

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.

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

Filmography

1995    Hugh
1996    These Places We've Learned to Call Home
1997    The Challenge of Manufacturing
1997    The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase
2003    The Globalisation Tapes
2003    A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches
2003    Market Update
2004    Postcard from Sun City, Arizoina
2004    Muzak: a tool of management
2007    Show of Force
2008    Several Consequences of the Decline of Industry in the Industrialised World
2012    The Act of Killing (documentary)

Books

    Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs & Politics (Acting on AIDS). London & New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997, ISBN 1-85242-553-9, ISBN 978-1-85242-553-1. (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 978-0-8020-9297-7.

    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.

Director - Selected filmography

1. The Act of Killing (2012)