Film Screening Reviews Archives — ARKIPEL https://arkipel.org/category/festival-updates/festival-stories/film-screening-reviews/ Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:13:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 51814669 International Competition 09: Sensory Chaos in Everyday Scenes https://arkipel.org/sensory-chaos-in-everyday-scenes/ https://arkipel.org/sensory-chaos-in-everyday-scenes/#respond Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:12:30 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11277 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.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/sensory-chaos-in-everyday-scenes/feed/ 0 11277 International Competition 07: Continuously Walking Westward, Eventually Turning Eastward https://arkipel.org/continuously-walking-westward/ https://arkipel.org/continuously-walking-westward/#respond Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:09:48 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11273 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. 

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]]> https://arkipel.org/continuously-walking-westward/feed/ 0 11273 Special Screening 02: The Language of Vertical Cinema https://arkipel.org/the-language-of-vertical-cinema/ https://arkipel.org/the-language-of-vertical-cinema/#respond Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:03:48 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11263 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, according to Eisenstein, is merely a thoughtless reproduction of 19th century paintings that were mostly of horizontal images.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/the-language-of-vertical-cinema/feed/ 0 11263 Special Screening 03: Counting with Om Pius https://arkipel.org/counting-with-om-pius/ https://arkipel.org/counting-with-om-pius/#respond Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:31:34 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11255 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 as the spectator.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/counting-with-om-pius/feed/ 0 11255 Special Presentation 02: Foreign Textures on The Surface of Space https://arkipel.org/foreign-textures-on-the-surface-of-space/ https://arkipel.org/foreign-textures-on-the-surface-of-space/#respond Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:06:47 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11246 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 yang dikuratori Kim Eunhee ini menangkap gerakan dan memantik indera peraba lewat lanskap dan permukaan berbagai ruang di Bumi.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/foreign-textures-on-the-surface-of-space/feed/ 0 11246 International Competition 5: Camera as Means to Seize Power https://arkipel.org/camera-as-a-means-to-seize-power/ https://arkipel.org/camera-as-a-means-to-seize-power/#respond Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:29:12 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11239 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 of Life (Maibam Amarjeet Singh)

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]]> https://arkipel.org/camera-as-a-means-to-seize-power/feed/ 0 11239 International Competition 04: Diving in the Dark and Light Parts of a Shadow https://arkipel.org/diving-in-the-dark-and-light-parts-of-a-shadow/ https://arkipel.org/diving-in-the-dark-and-light-parts-of-a-shadow/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:09:03 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11226 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 something else.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/diving-in-the-dark-and-light-parts-of-a-shadow/feed/ 0 11226 Candrawala: To Witness a Changing Landscape and Frame It https://arkipel.org/to-witness-a-changing-landscape-and-frame-it/ https://arkipel.org/to-witness-a-changing-landscape-and-frame-it/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:42:02 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11222 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), Anak Merak (2020), and Diary of Cattle (2019).

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]]> https://arkipel.org/to-witness-a-changing-landscape-and-frame-it/feed/ 0 11222 International Competition 06: The Threatened and Played Camera https://arkipel.org/the-threatened-and-played-camera/ https://arkipel.org/the-threatened-and-played-camera/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 08:02:08 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11215 There are two films shown in International Competition 06: Flox (2019) and Anak Merak (2019). Both films explore the position of the camera in the community it exposes.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/the-threatened-and-played-camera/feed/ 0 11215 Kompetisi Internasional 8: Keseharian Sapi-sapi di Hamparan Sampah https://arkipel.org/keseharian-sapi-sapi-di-hamparan-sampah/ https://arkipel.org/keseharian-sapi-sapi-di-hamparan-sampah/#respond Sun, 05 Dec 2021 15:01:18 +0000 https://arkipel.org/?p=11207 Diary of Cattle (2019), directed by Lidia Afrilita and David Darmadi, was screened on December 3, 2021 in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone.

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