These Places We’ve Learned To Call Home (1995), an expressionist hybrid of documentary and experimental trash, is the second film by Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing), created while he was still a student at Harvard. For the film, Oppenheimer infiltrated paramilitary groups in the American heartland, immediately winning their trust by pretending to be a victim of alien abduction. The film combines conversations with the extremists and images of destruction with sequences from Oppenheimer’s own performances, creating an eerie portrait of America at the end of the 20th century.

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