Arkipel Mini Festival – Arnhem, The Netherlands

At this year Sonsbeek 2016, ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival will present a mini festival which showcases seven days screening program at the Focus Theatre Arnhem. The programs are curated by 2 ARKIPEL programmers from the collection of Forum Lenteng’s archive. Following the theme of Sonsbeek 2016, Transaction, ARKIPEL will bring several programs that are not closely related with the theme. But more onto regional socio-political matters, economic, and newly changes of the world political map which will be present on the 10 following programs of the mini festival.

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Programs:

1. Memories of Things
   Suitcase of Love and Shame, Jane Gillooly (70 mins)
2. City & Representation of Modernity
   City Scene, Zhao Liang (23 mins)
   Lodz Symphony, Peter Hutton (20 mins)
   Island of Flowers, Jorge Furtado (13 mins)
3. Challenging The History Construction
   Nijuman no Borei / 20,000 Phantoms, Jean-Gabriel Periot (11 mins)
   Agarrando Pueblo / Vampyre of Poverty, Luis Ospina & Carlos Mayolo (28 mins)
   Zoo, Bert Haanstra (1962)
4. Reality Aesthetic, Public Realism? (Tuesday, 7 June, 21:00 – 23:00)
   Petition, Zhao Liang (120 mins)
5. Position and Discourse of the Present Cinema Experimentation (Wednesday, 8 June, 21:00 – 21:45)
   Lembusura, Wregas Bhanutedja (10 mins)
   Gli Immacolati, Ronny Trocker (13 mins)
   Post Scriptum, Santiago Parres (8 mins)
   Genre Sub Genre, Yosep Anggi Noen (12 mins)
6. History in The Reciprocity of Subject-Object (Wednesday, 8 June 22:05 – 23:30)
   Emak Bakia Baita / The Search for Emak Bakia, Oskar Alegria (83 mins)
7. Another Consensus (Thursday, 9 June, 20:00 – 21:40)
   Beep, Kim Kyung-Man (10 mins)
   Les Tourmentes, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (77 mins)
   What Day is Today?, Collectivo Fotograma 24 (12 mins)
8. Power and Small Narratives (Thursday, 9 June, 22:00 – 23:55)
   Je Suis le Peuple / I Am the People, Anna Roussillon (111 mins)
9. Camera Emphathy Rhythm of Terrytory (Friday, 10 June, 21:00 – 23:25)
   Storm Children, Book One, Lav Diaz (143 mins)
10. The Nameless (Saturday, 11 June, 21:00 – 22:05)
    The Nameless, Ho Tzu Nyen (20 mins)
    PolazistezaCekanje / The Waiting Point, Maša Drndić (44 mins)Addition: History’s Future, Fiona Tan (95 min) (Saturday, 11 June, 22:25 – 24:00)

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DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHY:

Jane Gillooly is a non-fiction and narrative film/video maker. Her work is inspired and informed by a century of non-fiction filmmaking, silent, vintage cinema and activism. Gillooly consistently surprises as she crosses new boundaries and confronts new subjects with her distinctive vision

Zhao Liang born in Lioning, Dandong at 1971. Graduated from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts at 1992. Studied in the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy (Narrative Photography) from 1993-1994. Currently lives and works in Beijing.

Peter Hutton born in Detroit, Michigan is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscape around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College and Harvard University. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton’s films.

Jorge Furtado born in Porto Alegre in 1959. He is a beloved figure in Brazil. His work displays amazing range, from critiques of capitalism to playful historical recreation to bitter tales of racism in his country. Furtado plays with the cinematic construction of time and narrative.

Jean-Gabriel Périot is an artist and filmmaker based on Tours, France. His work has been shown extensively around the world, winning a number of awards including the Grand Prix at the Tampere International Film Festival, USA and Best International Short at the Cork International Film Festival, Ireland.

Bert Haanstra born in 31 May 1916 was a Dutch film and documentary director. Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947.

Luis Ospina studied film at the University of Southern California and University of California UCLA. He was part of the group with Carlos Mailous Cali, Andrés Caicedo, Hernando Guerrero and other artist, who in 1970’s founded Cinema Club of Cali, Eye magazine film and artistic commune Solar City. He has directed two feature films Throroughbred (1982) and Breath of Life (1999), and has made over 30 short films and documentaries.

Carlos Mayolo born in Cali 1945 and finished high school in Bogota. Two years later he studied law at Universidad Santiago de Cali. He began his career in 1968 as a documentary film director. He was part of the group called Cali also integrated Luis Ospina, Arbelaez and Sandro Romero Rey, all movie fans with whom he founded the Cinema Club of Cali in 1971 and the Cinema Eye magazine in 1974. He played in the Colombian Communist Party.

Wregas Bhanuteja, born on October 20th, 1992. He graduated from Kolese De Britto Senior High School in Yogyakarta, continued his education at the Institut Kesenian Jakarta (IKJ). His works, Senyawa (2012) qualified for official selection in Jogja Asian Film Festival (2012) and the Festival Sinema Perancis (2013). He is now concentrating to finish his thesis in IKJ.

Ronny Trocker, worked as a sound engineer in Berlin for several years. He moved to Argentina at the 2004. Studied at the University del Cine, Buenos Aires. Since then, he has been made a number of films. In 2011-2013, he attended a residency at Le Fresnoy-National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Lille.

Santiago Parres, was born in Valencia. He is an artist and filmmaker who taught himself. His works and practices intersect with many mediums, from graphic design later evolved into the field of photography, until finally he made experimental films based on his own script.

Yosep Anggi Noen, born in Yogyakarta, and graduated from University of Gadjah Mada. He has been invited to the Asian Film Academy (2007). His work, It’s Not Raining Outside, was screened in the International Film Festival Rotterdam. While his Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses was qualified for the Locarno Film Festival and get the “Special Mention Award” at Vancouver International Film Festival 2013.

Oskar Alegria, born in Pamplona, 1973, began his career as a reporter in Madrid for Canal Plus program and CNN+ programs. In 2000, he created the Office of Lost Object for Artists. He is also an author of “Las ciudades visibles” (“The Visible Cities”), an artistic photographic project (2002). He is a professor at the University of Navarra since 2009

Kyungman Kim, He has been devoting himself at reediting archival footages, newsreels, and propaganda films since 2001.

Since 2000, Colectivo Fotograma24 develops animation cinema workshops, through the direction of experimental animated short films. This project is coordinated by Rodolfo Pimenta and Joana Torgal and the directors are the children & youngs that participate.

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (b. 1969 in Liége, Belgium). After studying communication studies, anthropology and African culture, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd worked as an academic at Brussels University in the philosophy and literature faculty. He led a programme for young Senegalese filmmakers. Since 2008 he has been a professor at Institut des Hautes Etudes de Communication Sociale (IHECS). The majority of his films are concerned with Africa

Anna Roussillon (1980, Beyrouth) grew up in Cairo, then moved to Paris. She studied filmmaking in Lussas (France). Graduated from Arabic, she teaches in Lyon, translates literary texts, participates in radio programs, while working on various film projects in relation with Egypt. I am the People is her first feature documentary

Lav Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Mindanao. He has been making films the last twenty years and has won several international awards; such as the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. His films are known with a long duration, such as Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), Heremias(2006), Death in the Land of Encantos(2007), Melancholia (2008), Norte, the End of History (2013), and From What Is Before (2014). Storm Children, Book One (2014) is one of his ‘short’ films.

Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976 in Singapore) earned a BA in Creative Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2001), and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore (2007). He makes films, video installations, and theatrical performances that are related to his interests in philosophy and history. Numerous film festivals have presented his work, including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Sundance, and Rotterdam

Maša Drndić made her first documentary in Documentary workshop held by Atelier  Varan in 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia. an-autobiography “My Belgrade” and decided to continue with filmmaking. After gaining her MA Degree in arts she enrolled in MA in cinematography at BFM, Estonia in 2008. In her works as a director  Maša often focuses on relationship between locations and its inhabitants, exploring individual as well as collective  expressions of identity, belonging, memories, dreams and desires

Fiona Tan born in Indonesia 1966, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie of Fine Arts. After her studies she became known for video and film installations in which explorations of memory, time, history and the role of the visual are pivotal. The documentary May You Live in Interesting Times (1997) was her directorial debut. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, including the Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum and the Centre de Pompidou. History’s Future (2015) is her first feature film.