ARKIPEL 2018 - homoludens Archives — ARKIPEL

ARKIPEL Catch-22 – International Competition: 22 Films

Arkipel — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:59:38 +0000

He/she is thrown into an unknown place from our present day. There he/she finds an unreadable map—which does not involve his/her chance to read it. Are you going to move? Where? I will stay here for a while, at least. His/her memory swirls about other places he/she previously had known. His/her hand lifts the map, as if nearly hangs it up.

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Golden Memories: History of Indonesian Home Cinema

Elva Sagita Cindra — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:51:02 +0000

Now everyone can easily record using digital devices, thanks to the advancement of technology. Starting from recording important things to the unimportant ones, recording momentous events up to merely mundane daily life. This practice of 'amateur' recording has been performed since the 1900's in Indonesia using celluloid film. However, image production at that time could only be done by several people who had access to production equipment and cinematic knowledge. The history of Indonesian cinema also tends to focus on industrial films that are made for commercial purposes.

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Notes from The Awarding Night of ARKIPEL homoludens: Traces of Humans Encounter

Arkipel — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:08:31 +0000

ARKIPEL homoludens: 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival has reached its peak on Thursday, August 16, 2018 in GoetheHaus, Goethe Institut Indonesien, Menteng, Central Jakarta. The closing ceremony, also the awarding night, was started at 07.00 PM, followed by a garden party on 09.00 PM.

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A Unique Mixture of Old and New Cinema a la Kidlat Tahimik

Agatha Danastri Dian Pertiwi — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:46:05 +0000

When in comes to the cinema documenting the history, it is unusual for us to find a serious production with heavy voice of its narrator. The cinema will appear very grande by inserting footages from the original old film from a specific archive. However, we don’t find such things in the documentary of history made by Kidlat Tahimik, an artist and filmmaker from Phillipines.

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Forum Festival: The Survivors

Dini Adanurani — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:18:55 +0000

Forum Festival as a part of ARKIPEL homoludens – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival took place from 8th to 9th August 2018 at GoetheHaus, Goethe Institut Indonesien, Jakarta. Forum Festival invited participants consisting of filmmakers, activists, and critics all over Indonesia to attend five of the panels that were held. After the opening night, most of the Forum Festival participants went back to their hometowns, or the cities where they came from, with various reasons. Fausto Keiluhu, one of the participants representing Liga Film Mahasiswa, ITB, admitted that he and his friends had to go back after the opening night, because ITB students had to fill in their courses for the semester.

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ARKIPEL homoludens Award Winners

Arkipel — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:09:59 +0000

The ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2018 was officially closed in the GoetheHaus Jakarta, August 16, 2018.

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Kidlat Tahimik: Reclaiming our Narrative in Cinema

Dini Adanurani — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:07:27 +0000

It is a fact that the daily life of Asian and African society today refers to the Western culture, as a prolonged impact of the colonization in the previous centuries. The colonization stayed until this day, in a more contemporary form: the establishment of English language as an international language, until Hollywood products that dominate the pop culture consumption around the world. Kidlat Tahimik, one of the most influential filmmakers in the Philippines, even in the Southeast Asia, realized this phenomenon, and responded to it in a new, refreshing way through his works.

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Exploring Medium and Pessimism of the Future on the International Competition 8

Dini Adanurani — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:40:30 +0000

Tremor and A Room with A Coconut View demonstrated the flexibility of medium to express the ideas from the filmmakers. The visual exploration reaches its farthest point on those two films. Apart from the medium, I think they hold certain pessimism for the future in its narration, even though it was expressed in different ways.

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Focus On Kidlat Tahimik: The Screening of Who Invented the Yo-yo? Who invented the Moon Buggy

Septian Dwi Cahyo — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:00:16 +0000

On its seventh day of event, Tuesday, August 14th 2018, ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, screened the films of Kidlat Tahimik. Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned artist and film director from Philippines. The achievement from the films he produced has made him one of the most important filmmakers in South East Asia cinema.

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Returning to the Root of Tree with Kidlat Tahimik

Niskala H. Utami — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:00:41 +0000

The atmosphere on Tuesday (14/8) at Kineforum has started to be more crowded. About an hour before the screening, people began to queue to get the ticket to watch an oeuvre of KidlatTahimik, The Perfumed Nightmare (1977). Kidlat, who often dubbed as The Godfather of Philippines Independent Cinema, holds a very youthful spirit even in his 75 years of life.

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