Joshua Oppenheimer – MRQE https://mrqe.com Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:48:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Joshua Oppenheimer – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 The Globalisation Tapes (V) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-globalisation-tapes-m100117670/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-globalisation-tapes-m100117670/ Filmed by Indonesian workers during their working hours on rubber and palm oil plantations, this film exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the global economy. Through chilling first hand accounts, hilarious improvised interventions, collective debate and archival footage, the film explores the relationships between trade, Third World debt, and international institutions like the IMF and World Bank.

]]> The Look of Silence https://mrqe.com/movie/the-look-of-silence-m100111036/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-look-of-silence-m100111036/ A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

]]> A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches https://mrqe.com/movie/a-brief-history-of-paradise-as-told-by-the-cockroaches-m100150669/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-brief-history-of-paradise-as-told-by-the-cockroaches-m100150669/ They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the indomitable insects the floor in this perversely comic commentary on affluence and self-destruction. Leashed with thin ribbons, a small intrusion of cockroaches scramble over magazine spreads of the good life while a schizophrenic pest voice-over mutters like an asylum inmate recalling the good old days, when food was plentiful and the roach traps were the enemy. It is consumption and consumerism as empty activity and madness, played-out as a natural history documentary in the guise of an invasion picture, all set to the theme song from LOVE STORY.

]]> The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase https://mrqe.com/movie/the-entire-history-of-the-louisiana-purchase-m100129298/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-entire-history-of-the-louisiana-purchase-m100129298/ A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.

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