Film Screening Reviews

With 442 minutes in total, Hitler: A Film from Germany was one of the longest films that Kineforum ever screened. Directed by Hans-Jurgen Syberber, this film was produced in Western German, [...]

Monday afternoon, August 22nd 2016, I attended two programs of International Competition in ARKIPEL, in a row. First screening was started at 1 pm, and the second one was at 4 to 6 pm. I also [...]

Anthropocene itself is a term used many times by the curator and is actually a relatively new term and not quite popular yet. Anthropocene refers to the change of conditions and situations that [...]

Forty people who attended this program almost fill the entire seats of Kineforum. The audience laughter can be heard several times in the scenes where humor was encountered. In the discussion [...]

The story of Nepal as well as the struggle of this developing country and the challenge is disclosed in Asian Young Curator program titled Voices: Alternative Nepali Cinema. The program is [...]

Then, satisfaction was the reaction I got from watching World Cup. This film was nothing but slow, 108 minutes felt like a 30-minute film, thanks to its playful narration. Some shots were [...]

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 [...]