ARKIPEL 2021 – Twilight Zone

In the discourse of ethnographic film, representing the subjects living in the periphery will bring forth the experimentation of cinema aesthetics. The experimentation is in parallel with the [...]

This year's Kultursinema program presented the film Harimau Tjampa (1953) as the object of research. As usual, every year since 2014, Kultursinema has been trying to reposition how the public [...]

The screening of the International Competition 9 program was held online since December 12, 2021. Previously this program had been held offline at Forum Lenteng cinema on December 6, 2021.

Before the Western culture was deemed as the zenith of art, science, politics, and economy, there was a time when the Western and Eastern knowledge were on equal footing. 

In 1930, the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein wrote an essay complaining about the standardization of cinema screen (widescreen) as the default format of film presentation. Widescreen, [...]

Om Pius sleeps sitting up, soundly. It was quite around him, no sign of activity, and his snore was getting clearer. It was a fine noon. After a while, the screen turns black, reflecting my face [...]

Menonton Permukaan Tak Acuh, Gerakan Pendulum adalah pengalaman merasakan berbagai tekstur permukaan dari benda-benda asing yang secara konstan bergerak mengitari tubuh. Program berisikan 4 filem [...]

International Competition 5: Penumbral Zone in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone debuted its screening offline and online on Sunday (12/5). Two films in this programs are Hut (2019) by So Ye-hen and Highways [...]

This curatorial at least invites and reminds us to see not only what is on the screen but also the shadow behind it. This shadow can assume the form of a bitter history, a collective trauma or [...]

ARKIPEL presented a number of film curations, one of which was the Candrawala program, in which four films were showed: Katarsis Yang Tak Kunjung Selesai (2020), Di Pinggir Kali Citarum (2019), [...]