Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born 23 September 1974 in Texas, US) is an American film director based in London, UK.

Oppenheimer's films push the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Influenced by the experimental montage of his mentor, Dusan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

, his first feature film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997) won a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....

 (1998) and premiered at the 1997 Telluride Film Festival.

From 2004 to 2008, he produced a series of films in Indonesia

Indonesia

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Education

Joshua Oppenheimer received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in filmmaking from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, and a Ph.D. from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...

, University of the Arts London

University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London, formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six internationally recognised art, design, fashion and media colleges in London, England...

, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship

Marshall Scholarship

The Marshall Scholarship, a postgraduate scholarships available to Americans, was created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom when the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act was passed in 1953. The scholarships serve as a living gift to the United States of America in recognition of the post-World War...

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Filmography

• Hugh (1995)
• These Places We've Learned to Call Home (1996)
• The Challenge of Manufacturing (1997)
• The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997)
• The Globalisation Tapes (2003)
• A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches (2003)
• Market Update (2003)
• Postcard from Sun City, Arizoina (2004)
• Muzak: a tool of management (2004)
• Show of Force (2007)
• Several Consequences of the Decline of Industry in the Industrialised World (2008)

Books

• Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs & Politics (Acting on AIDS). London & New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997, ISBN 1852425539, ISBN 978-1852425531. (With Helena Reckitt, co-editor.)

• Going through the motions and becoming other. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Chanan, Michael, (ed.) Visible evidence. Wallflower Press, 2007. London, UK. (In Press)

• History and Histrionics: Vision Machine's Digital Poetics. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In: Marchessault, Janine and Lord, Susan, (eds.) Fluid screens, expanded cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2007, Toronto, Canada, pp. 167–183. ISBN 9780802092977.

• Show of force: a cinema-séance of power and violence in Sumatra's plantation belt. (With Michael Uwemedimo, co-author). In Critical Quarterly, Volume 51, No 1, April 2009, pp. 84–110. Edited by: Colin MacCabe
  Colin MacCabe
  Colin MacCabe is a British writer and film producer. He is distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh, professor of English and humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, and a visiting professor at the University of Exeter....
  
  . Blackwell Publishing, 2009. ISSN 0011-1562.

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