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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction, by Joram ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer (De)activating Empathy Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance and 'Humanitarian Intervention', by Thomas Keenan Shooting with Intent: Framing Conflict, by Alisa Lebow Immersion (2009), by Harun Farocki Anaesthetising the Image: Immersion, Harun Farcocki, by Kodwo Eshun Revisiting Rocha's 'Aesthetics of Violence', by Michael Chanan Memory of Violence: Visualising Trauma Ca va de soi: The Visual Representation of Violence in the Holocaust Documentary, by Brian Winston Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir, by Garrett Stewart Animating Trauma: Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky, by Joram ten Brink Spaces of Violence: History, Horror and the Cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, by Adam Lowenstein On Historical Violence and Aesthetic Form: Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 Neuf Zero, by Daniel Morgan Battle for History: Appropriating the Past in the Present Subverting Dominant Historical Narratives: Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, Avi Mograbi, by Joram ten Brink Re-enactment, the History of Violence and Documentary Film, by Joram ten Brink Interpreting Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave, by Alice Correia Remediating Genocidal Images into Artworks: The Case of the Tuol Sleng Mug Shots, by Stephanie Benzaquen Screening the 1965 Violence, by Ariel Heryanto Performing Violence Perpetrators' Testimony and the Restoration of Humanity: S21, Rithy Panh, by Joshua Oppenheimer The Killer's Search for Absolution: Z32, Avi Mograbi, by Joram ten Brink Impunity, by Benedict Anderson Show of Force: A Cinema-seance of Power and Violence in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, by Joshua Oppenheimer and Michael Uwemedimo Misunderstanding Images: Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris, by Joshua Oppenheimer Index