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 In ARKIPEL 2024 - Garden of Earthy Delights, International Competition

Si Hantu yang Merindukan Rumahnya
The Ghost Who Longs for His Home

Host: Alifah Melisa

 

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | 16:00 | Bioskopforlen

Ada sebuah kisah tentang hantu yang dipaksa berperang membela penjajahnya. Si hantu harus meninggalkan kampung halamannya untuk menjadi tentara, melawan musuh dari negara yang menjajah tanah airnya. Ia dikenal sebagai tentara Gurkha. Si hantu sangat merindukan rumahnya. Ia ingin kembali ke rumah. Sebagai hantu, seharusnya ia bebas kapan saja kembali ke tempat asalnya, tetapi karena identitasnya, ia tidak bisa kembali. Si hantu hanya bisa merindukan rumahnya, membayangkan makanan dan minuman di kampung halamannya. Si hantu menulis surat untuk menumpahkan rindunya. Tidak mudah baginya untuk menulis surat, karena tintanya membeku, ia harus menghangatkannya terlebih dahulu untuk bisa menulis. Semua perasaan dan rekaman ingatan si hantu yang masih tertinggal di tempat asing itu dituangkannya ke sebuah surat. Surat ini kemudian dibaca oleh manusia. Di dalamnya, terdapat potongan-potongan gambar, yang ketika disusun membentuk sebuah cerita. Sebuah cerita tentang ketercerabutan akar dan kehilangan identitas. Si manusia mencoba merasakan apa yang dialami si hantu melalui potongan-potongan gambar yang ada. Si hantu merasa keberadaannya bukan miliknya, ia menjadi objek yang dikuasai oleh orang lain. Semuanya itu hasil dari perasaan dan rekaman ingatan si hantu yang masih tertinggal di tempat asing itu.

Rasa ingin tahunya yang tak terpuaskan mendorong si manusia untuk mencari potongan-potongan gambar lain. Pencariannya membawanya ke Museum Sejarah Kroasia, di mana ia menemukan potongan-potongan gambar tentang pengungsi perang. Para pengungsi yang terpaksa meninggalkan negaranya akibat pendudukan tentara Jerman. Mereka mengarungi laut Mediterania hingga sampai di Mesir. Di tanah asing itu, mereka harus beradaptasi dengan lingkungan yang keras, menghadapi terpaan badai gurun, dan belajar bercocok tanam di lahan yang berbeda. Pada dasarnya, manusia dapat menyesuaikan dirinya di tempat ia berada, dan itulah yang dilakukan para pengungsi ini. Mereka melakukan segala bentuk kehidupan di tempat asal mereka sebagai usaha mempertahankan akar mereka, seperti menyulam dengan sisa kain tenda, memproduksi sendiri pertunjukkan teater dan menyanyi selayaknya yang mereka lakukan di rumahnya.

Dua cerita di atas sama-sama menyajikan gambaran masa lalu, melalui potongan arsip dan gambar masa kini, dalam lanskap tempat mereka berada. Kedua cerita tersebut berasal dari filem In Flanders Field (2023) karya Sachin dan Chasing the Sun: El Shatt (2023) karya Ana Bilankov. Dalam In Flanders Field, si hantu yang merindukan rumahnya, berusaha mempertahankan identitasnya melalui ingatan tentang rumah. Filem ini menarasikan perjalanan tentara Gurkha yang tercerabut dari akarnya melalui potongan-potongan gambar yang disandingkan dengan lanskap Eropa sekarang. Dalam Chasing the Sun: El Shatt, para pengungsi masih mempertahankan identitasnya dengan kegiatan harian mereka yang masih sama seperti saat sebelum mereka mengungsi. Di sini, gambar bolak-balik antara lanskap terkini Mesir dengan arsip foto pengungsi, yang diperoleh dari Museum Sejarah Kroasia, Museum Maritim Kroasia, Library of Congress, dan United Nations Archives, menunjukkan cara bertahan hidup mereka di tempat baru.

There is a story about a ghost forced to fight to defend his colonizers. The ghost had to leave his hometown to become a soldier, fighting enemies of the country that colonized his homeland. He was known as a Gurkha soldier. The ghost then yearned to be home. He wished to return. Being a ghost should mean that he is free to go back to his hometown at any time, but his identity restricts him from going back. The ghost could only long for his home, imagining the food and drink of his hometown. The ghost wrote a letter to express his longing. It was not easy for him to write a letter, as the ink was frozen, and he needed to warm it up first to be able to write. All the feelings and recorded memories of the ghost that remained in the foreign place were poured into a letter. Humans then read this letter. Inside, there are fragments of images, which form a story when arranged—a story of rootlessness and loss of identity. The human tries to feel what the ghost is experiencing through the pieces of the picture. The ghost feels that his existence does not belong to him, he becomes an object controlled by others. Everything is the result of the emotions and recorded memories of the ghost that are still left in that foreign place.

An insatiable curiosity drove the human to search for other fragments of the image. The search led to the Croatian Historical Museum, where fragments of images of war refugees were found. Refugees, who were forced to flee their country due to the German occupation, sailed through the Mediterranean Sea until they reached their destination. In that foreign land, they had to adapt to its harsh environment, facing desert storms as well as learning to grow crops on a different land. In essence, humans can adapt themselves to where they live, and that exactly is what these refugees did. They do all the things they usually did before in their homeland to maintain their roots, such as embroidering with leftover tent fabric, producing their very own theatrical performances, and singing just as they would at home.

The two stories above both paint a picture of the past, through archival footage and images of the present, in the landscapes they inhabit. Both stories are from the films In Flanders Field (2023) by Sachin and Chasing the Sun: El Shatt (2023) by Ana Bilankov. In In Flanders Field, a ghost who misses his home tries to hold on to his identity through memories of his home. The film narrates the journey of a Gurkha soldier pulled from his roots through fragments of images juxtaposed with the current European landscape. In Chasing the Sun: El Shatt, refugees still retain their identity by doing their daily activities the same way they did before they fled. Here, the back-and-forth images of the current landscape in Egypt with the archives of refugee photos from the Croatian Historical Museum, the Croatian Maritime Museum, the Library of Congress, and the United Nations Archives, show how they survive in a new place.

Film List

ਫਲੈਂਡਰਸ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਂ ਵਿੱਚ / In Flanders Fields

Filmmaker Sachin Sachin (Rajasthan, India)
International Title ਫਲੈਂਡਰਸ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਂ ਵਿੱਚ / In Flanders Fields
Country of Production  Belgium
Language Nepali, Panjabi
Subtitle  English

15 min, Stereo, Digital, 4:3, HD, Black & White and Color, 2023

Filem ini mengisahkan tentara Gurkha yang tercerabut identitasnya dan terjebak di tempat asing. Menggambarkan keterasingan para tentara Gurkha di lanskap Eropa lewat potongan gambar yang ditempel ke lanskap Eropa terkini.

In Flanders Field tells the story of Gurkha soldiers who are uprooted from their identity and trapped in a foreign place. Depicting the alienation of Gurkha soldiers in the European landscape through footage pasted onto the current European landscape.

Sachin adalah seorang sineas asal Rajasthan yang menggunakan seni berbasis lensa untuk memahami dunia di sekelilingnya dan mengekspresikan ide-idenya dengan pendekatan eksperimental. Berasal dari keluarga agraris, Sachin sangat tertarik pada eksplorasi visual dari praktik-praktik pertanian di masyarakat pedesaan dan keterkaitannya dengan faktor-faktor sosio-ekologis. Ia tertarik pada sejarah lisan, cerita rakyat dan sistem pengetahuan lokal berbasis masyarakat. Filemnya sering mengeksplorasi perubahan lanskap pedesaan, kepercayaan dan sistem pengetahuan. Sachin adalah salah satu pendiri Docustan Cinema Association, yang didedikasikan untuk mengembangkan praktik pembuatan filem dokumenter.

Sachin is a Rajasthan-based filmmaker who employs lens-based art to comprehend the world around him and express his ideas with an experimental approach. Coming from an agrarian family, Sachin is deeply invested in the visual exploration of agricultural practices in rural communities and their interconnectedness with socio-ecological factors. He is interested in oral histories, folklore and community based indigenous knowledge systems. His films often explore the changes in rural landscapes, beliefs and knowledge systems. Sachin is co-founder of Docustan Cinema Association, which is dedicated to nurturing the practice of documentary filmmaking.

Dohvatiti sunce: El Shatt / Chasing the Sun: El Shatt

Filmmaker Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb)
International Title Dohvatiti sunce: El Shatt / Chasing the Sun: El Shatt
Country of Production  Croatia, Egypt
Language Croatian, English
Subtitle  English

20 min, Stereo, Digital, 16:9, 2K, Color, 2023

Filem ini menceritakan tentang masyarakat Yugoslavia yang mengungsi ke Mesir karena negaranya diduduki oleh tentara Jerman. Filem ini menampilkan hidup para pengungsi Yugoslavia dengan visual lanskap terkini Mesir yang disandingkan dengan arsip tahun 1940-an.

 

It tells the story of the Yugoslav people who fled to Egypt because their country was occupied by the German army. The film shows the lives of Yugoslav refugees with visuals of Egypt’s current landscape juxtaposed with archives of them from the 1940s.

 

Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb) adalah seorang seniman visual dan sineas yang bekerja di media filem eksperimental/dokumenter, fotografi, dan instalasi video. Ia belajar Sejarah Seni dan Bahasa dan Sastra Jerman di Universitas Zagreb dan Mainz dan menyelesaikan studi pascasarjana ” Art in Context” di Universitas Seni di Berlin. Ia telah menampilkan karyanya di berbagai pameran, memenangkan berbagai beasiswa internasional dan berpartisipasi dalam festival filem dan video seperti International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen, FeKK Short Film Festival Ljubljana, BIEFF Bucharest, 25 FPS Zagreb, Kassel DocFest, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Achtung Berlin, Crossing the Screen, Inggris, Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentary and Shorts Mesir, di mana ia memenangkan beberapa penghargaan.

Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb) is visual artist and filmmaker working in the media of experimental/documentary film, photography and video installation. She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz and completed postgraduate studies “Art in Context“ at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has shown her work in many exhibitions, won numerous international scholarships and participated in film and video festivals like International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen, FeKK Short Film Festival Ljubljana, BIEFF Bucharest, 25 FPS Zagreb, Kassel DocFest, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Achtung Berlin, Crossing the Screen, UK, Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentary and Shorts Egypt, where she has won several awards.

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