Second Run unveils JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER: 12 EARLY WORKS (review)

Before his provocative and award-winning works THE LOOK OF SILENCE and THE ACT OF KILLING, Joshua Oppenheimer honed his audio-visual style and explored his political and ideological concerns in a series of short films moving from the darker and desolate flipside of America the Beautiful to an Indonesia shaped by death squads in 1965 and globalization today.

REVIEW LINK: Second Run DVD (DVDBeaver) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER: EARLY WORKS DVD specs:

• 4:3 fullscreen presentations of LIGHT TEST (1995), CAMERA TEST (1995), HUGH (1996), THE CHALLENGE OF MANUFACTURING (1996), THESE PLACES WE'VE LEARNED TO CALL HOME (1996), THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE (1997), THE GLOBALISATION TAPES (2002), MARKET UPDATE (2002), A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES (2002), MUZAK: A TOOL OF MANAGEMENT (2002), and POSTCARD FROM SUN CITY, ARIZONA (2003)
  16:9 anamorphic widescreen presentation of LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (Bahasa Indonesian on THE GLOBALISATION TAPES and MUZAK: A TOOL OF MANAGEMENT with burnt-in English subtitles)
• Interview with director Joshua Oppenheimer
• Essay Booklet by Gareth Evans