Notare l’aspetto umano. Soul-blindness e reenactment nei documentari di Joshua Oppenheimer

The article studies Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries – The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) – combining close reading, film theory and philosophy. In particular, the balance between performativity and spectatorship developed in Oppenheimer’s reenactments will be described, then interpreted through the lens of Cavell’s concept of soul-blindness and, more generally, his use of Wittgenstein’s discussion of aspect-seeing and intersubjectivity.