Film Screening Reviews

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. 

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]

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.

Diary of Cattle (2019), directed by Lidia Afrilita and David Darmadi, was screened on December 3, 2021 in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone.

Hari Ini Belum Ada Kabar (2021) is a collection of events in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that was recorded from the perspective of people in various regions in Indonesia.