Filming the Executioner: Is It Ethical?
Within the programming of
The Iconography of Disaster: Shock Images and Activist Film
8 Mar 2017
| Duration: | 2 hours |
What is the intention of directors who choose to portray disasters by focusing on those who represent the darkest side of human nature? Paul S. Refsdal and Vicente J. Benet will join us to reflect on the possibility of giving voice to the executioners, a new trend fraught with ethical and moral controversy.
Speakers:
- Paul S. Refsdal, director of documentaries and author of Dugma: The Button, an intimate portrait of three Al Qaeda suicide bombers who plan to blow themselves up in northern Syria.
- Vicente J. Benet, professor of Audiovisual Communication at Jaume I University.
