On August 21st, ARKIPEL social/kapital – 4th Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival was held at Kineforum, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta. At 11 am, the first program was [...]
Probably, not only intertitle that can be a part of the visual language of the film. Even the sequence of image performance, footage placement and the narration of the film itself can be a [...]
The films screened this time were the representation of Taiwanese community’s struggle due to the oppression of global neoliberals. Many symbols were invested in the films as the representation [...]
Propaganda films will be successful if it can fulfill the aesthetic conditions of good films. Propaganda films often display a black and white truth. That kind of imagination must be showed to [...]
Umi Lestari brought a very relevant discourse in Europe; migration. She used a symbol that was ‘Flow’ of which was often identified as a domination that dragged us into. In a river, there were [...]
A very interesting scene for me was side symbol that became the center of his film since its middle part to ending scene. Precisely as Bunga Siagian wrote on the catalogue, boots symbolized bad [...]
ARKIPEL social/kapital – 4th Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival is an international film festival held by Forum Lenteng, consistently since its first attempt in 2013. [...]
Hitherto, the development of cinema is never far from those who contribute to develop cinema knowledge itself. Among those contributors are communities. Even though these communities are not [...]
When it comes to the language of cinema in Asia, Fang-Tze said that we cannot forget the desire of national cinema that goes hand in hand with global cinema. Therefore the achievement of national [...]
The opening of the exhibition was visited by 55 people and was covered by the Kompas. Andra, one of the visitors admitted that this exhibition program of ARKIPEL social/kapital provided a new [...]