ARKIPEL: Grand Illusion, Festival Jury

Tahun ini, ARKIPEL Grand Illusion – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2015 dengan bangga mengabarkan lima juri yang akan berperan dalam menentukan dan memutuskan penghargaan terhadap empat filem terpilih. Kami mengundang tiga kolega internasional yang kredibilitas dan kontribusinya telah diakui di bidang perfileman dan wacana seni saat ini.

Berikut adalah lima anggota juri ARKIPEL: Grand Illusion:

Hafiz, merupakan seorang seniman, pembuat filem, kurator, dan salah satu pendiri Forum Lenteng dan Ruangrupa. Selain menjadi Direktur Forum Lenteng dan Pemimpin Redaksi www.jurnalfootage.net, dia juga menjadi Direktur Artistik untuk ARKIPEL – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival. Tahun 2003-11, dia merupakan Direktur Artistik pada OK. Video – Jakarta International Video Festival. Saat ini, Hafiz juga menjabat sebagai Ketua Komite Seni Rupa Dewan Kesenian Jakarta.

Ronny Agustinus, adalah Pemimpin Redaksi penerbit Marjin Kiri. Ia menekuni soal-soal Amerika Latin dan membuat blog tentang itu di sastraalbi.blogspot.com. Selain filem, ia juga seorang pemerhati sastra dan telah menerjemahakan karya Subcomandante Marcos, El Fisgón, Luis Sepúlveda, dan Isabel Allende.

David Teh, adalah seorang penulis, kurator, konsultan dan peneliti yang berbasis di National University of Singapore, khususnya di bidang seni kontemporer Asia Tenggara. Tahun 2005-09, dia merupakan kritikus dan kurator independen berbasis di Bangkok, Thailand. Dia telah merealisasikan berbagai proyek seni di Jerman, Malaysia, Indonesia dan Singapura. Tulisan-tulisannya telah pernah dimuat di Third Text, AFTERALL Journal, LEAP Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, artforum.com dan The Bangkok Post.

May Adadol, merupakan direktur peneliti di International Centre for Docuentary and Experimental Film, Universitas Westminster, Inggris Raya. Ia menulis dan mengajar tentang sinema dan sejarah Asia Tenggara, esttika filem eksperimental dan independen, dan praktik-praktik umum mengenai pameran gambar bergerak. Sebagai kurator, pada tahun 2012, May menjadi direktur pada 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival: Raiding the Archives.

Jon Jost, merupakan seorang filmmaker yang telah berkarya sejak tahun 1963, dan karya pertamanya dibuat di Cassina Amata, Paderno Dugnano, Italia. Sejak itu, dia telah membuat sekitar 38 karya filem berdurasi panjang, lebih dari 50 karya filem berdurasi pendek, karya-karya instalasi, serta karya seni rupa, tulisan dan musik. Karya-karyanya telah sering dipresentasikan di berbagai festival internasional, baik yang berskala besar maupun kecil, selalu berada di luar jalur komersil. Ia dianggap sebagai salah satu seniman independen berpengaruh dan paling berdedikasi di Amerika. Ia juga mengelola blog beralamat https://jonjost.wordpress.com/.

ARKIPEL: Grand Illusion, Festival Jury

This year, ARKIPEL Grand Illusion – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2015 is proud to announce our festival jury who will determine and decide the award of the four best films. We invited three international colleagues whose credibility and contribution have been internationally recognized in the field of cinema and art discourse today.

Here are our festival jury members:

Hafiz, is an artist, filmmaker, and curator. He is one of founders of Forum Lenteng and Ruangrupa. Besides as Director of Forum Lenteng and Editor in Chief at www.jurnalfootage.net, Hafiz is also Artistic Director at ARKIPEL – International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival. From 2003-11 Hafiz was Artistic Director at OK. Video – Jakarta International Video Festival. Since 2013, Hafiz is The Head Commissioner of Visual Arts at Jakarta Arts Council.

Ronny Agustinus, is Editor in Chief of Marjin Kiri Publication. He also has been keen on of Latin America’s issues and created a blog about them at sastraalibi.blogspot.com. Besides cinema, he is also an observer of literature and has translated works of Subcomandante Marcos, El Fisgón, Luis Sepúlveda, and Isabel Allende.

David Teh, is a writer, curator, art advisor and researcher based at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Southeast Asian contemporary art. From 2005-9 Teh was an independent critic and curator based in Bangkok, Thailand. He has realised projects in Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. His writings have appeared in Third Text, AFTERALL Journal, LEAP Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, artforum.com and The Bangkok Post.

May Adadol, is a Reader and Director of Research at the International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film, University of Westminster, UK. She writes and teaches on cinema and history in Southeast Asia, independent and experimental moving image aesthetics, and radical practices of moving image exhibition. As a curator, in 2012 May directed the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival: Raiding the Archives.

Jon Jost, is a veteran film and video-maker, having made his first work in 1963 in Cassina Amata, Paderno Dugnano (Milano), Italy. Since then he’s worked continuously, making some 38 feature length works, more than thirty short films, several installations, along with painting, writing, and playing-composing music (C&W). While his films were screened regularly in major festivals and small ones too, they fail almost all criteria for the present day “market economy” value system, and are more or less not shown outside the festival circuit. In the last few years they seem also to not suit festivals, as the rejection list gets longer. He is regarded as one of the influential independent artists and the most dedicated in the United States. He also develop a web blog at https://jonjost.wordpress.com/.