From his home in Copenhagen, a city he's called home for more than a decade, Texas-born Oscar-nominated American-Danish filmmaker JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER talks about his new narrative film The End (2024), an apocalyptic musical. Joshua discusses The End alongside his Oscar-nominated documentary films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), and how the three provocative and divisive projects are mirrors to challenge us to look at ourselves.

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For today's episode, Joshua Oppenheimer chose Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Striden mellem Fastelavn og Fasten, or The Strife between Carnival and Lent, from 1562 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1639

(Photographer: Pascal Bünning)

This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on January 23, 2025.

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