ARKIPEL 2013

This touring programme, featuring artists from Australia, USA, Thailand, South Korea and Canada, highlights their cinematic acts of remembrance in the land of the victors’ amnesia.

Parts of a family is a bittersweet and universal love story. What stays behind when the great passion of being in love has slowly faded away, and the years have been passing by?

In documentary films they initiated, Forum Lenteng always did experimentation on narrative possibility with human as a given subject, or with a structure which emphasized on the up and down [...]

More than three years. That is the amount of time spent by the filmmakers of The Land Beneath the Fog and Denok & Gareng following their sources.

Cinema obsession to reach ‘the real’ is not a new issue anymore. Since photography was invented and Lumière Brothers’ movie was shown to the public, a technology to reproduce reality had been [...]

Footage from the archive functions as catalyst to write a new archive-to see history in a new way. It is a technique that allows a personal interpretation of history reflected through its [...]

Upheaval that occurred in Romania was the impact of political changes in Uni Soviet which pervaded to the alliance of East European countries in 1989. The fall of the Berlin walls was the most [...]

In the mid 90s, Indonesian cinema had collapsed. Film Distribution in Indonesia wass dominated by big institution which only distributed Hollywood movies. Just like what has been happening with [...]

The ideology of development in the cities also ends up leaving some problems. The needs for public space have to be sacrificed in order to ‘create’ a majestic metropolis.

Perhaps this is for the best: the archive, with the limitlessness of its ability to store and preserve, will inevitably contain impressions, maybe billions of them, of the darker sides of our [...]