Representing Perpetration in Documentaries on Genocide

Project description

Perpetrators’ testimonies versus film directors’ ethics

A growing number of documentary films examine crimes against humanity from the perpetrators’ perspective. Many feature interviews with perpetrators and are directed by victims. Despite the growing interest in the films, relatively little is known about the representation of perpetrators in academic literature. In this context, the EU-funded PERPREP project will study documentary filmmakers’ political and ethical narrative strategies of representing genocidal perpetrators. Using narratology to analyse directors’ depiction of perpetrators, the focus will be on four genocides: the Holocaust, the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres, the Cambodian genocide, and the genocide of the Tutsi. The findings will shed light on how documentary filmmakers reframe the perpetrators’ self-deceptions to undermine the perpetrators’ accounts of history.

Fields of science

• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › philosophy › metaphysics › teleology
• humanities › arts › modern and contemporary art › cinematography
• humanities › history and archaeology › history › modern history
• social sciences › law › human rights › human rights violations

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panel

Coordinator

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET

Address

Norregade 10
1165 Kobenhavn
Denmark

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 328 968