International Competition

On the sixth day of ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Monday 13th of August 2018, the screening of works in International Competition 6 is [...]

On Saturday (11/8) at GoetheHaus, Goethe Institut Indonesien, Jakarta, Affirmatory Tracing: Journey Through the Labyrinth of the Past Anxiety, Poetic Paranoia, and Present Horror was shown as a [...]

Mainstream films are often trapped with a focus on stories without regard to visual aesthetics. Oftentimes the provision of visual meaning in image production is neglected, intentionally or not, [...]

I believe in the power of language. I believe in the power of words. In my subjective view, words could change history, words could become instruments of struggle for either country and specific [...]

Singularity in the language of science is a point of space in time that has infinite density and a very small volume, to the point of making infinite curvature of space-time. Akbar Yumni in the [...]

"Is life beautiful?" That philosophical question was raised by Quame Nyantakyi to his therapist during one of his regular therapy session. The therapist who seemed to be indifferent only [...]

Játékok is a series of musical composition arrangement for piano composed by György Kurtág, a Hungarian composer and pianist. Volume I was composed in 1973 and the last series Volume IX in 2017. [...]

Is there anyone who is really a personal being altogether – both in the past and now? These two films propose a reflection on the impersonal, that: not a single being on their own behalf can [...]

The World Cup this year demonstrated not only bodies in the act of defeating one another, but also a new rule introduced by the international football association, FIFA. The use of VAR (Video [...]

Perhaps the most surprising of these days, among others, is: our unexpected results of the excavations of the past often make us face another narrative, which seems even more sinister, about the [...]