Penal Colony might have been ended, but it doesn’t mean that the fight for freedom has come to an end as well. This is instead a good beginning to start making new images that can collapse the [...]

This year, the juror of ARKIPEL Penal Colony decided there were four award categories, each of which was chosen by the four members of the board of the jury, namely Hafiz Rancajale (Indonesia), [...]

Manshur Zikri as the curator of this program elaborated that the selection of these four films was expected to reflect a situation and phenomenon which are growing in the society of Indonesia.

I remembered the colonization occurred to the local beliefs, which were forced to follow the six main religions in Indonesia. In fact, recently, there was an action of the Sunda Wiwitan followers [...]

Friday, August 25 2017, I had the chance to watch the International Competition 2 program: The Windmill. Two out of four films screened were made by a director who comes from a country whose [...]

If you decided to see a picture of a young woman, then the picture of an old woman will disappear from your mind, and vice versa. The keyword used in this statement is “deciding.” You have an [...]

A dark cold room was decorated by two pieces of white fabric hang from above was the first scenery I saw. Those two white fabrics, which recently I recognized as the winding sheet because the [...]

Film, as one of the media used for activism, has the role able to liberate and give space for women to seize the discourse about the authority of herself. Film can help to decipher the [...]

From the five documentary films screened, the audience were presented by a fresh perspective through the reflection of different reality in the lives of German suburbian. After all of the movie [...]

There is no introduction on who is this man, also no explanation on what is he doing, or which sea referred on Two Years at Sea as the film’s title. Is he possibly isolating himself? Once, there [...]

Regarding with “Penal Colony” as the topic, those films which were compiled into this screening session tried to retract the memories about the dark time from the dictatorship of the [...]

The many centuries of living within a state has caused human to be diluted by a tendency known as sedentary bias. This tendency causes us to see that moving from one country to another as [...]

Borrowing the word of Otty Widasari, one of the selectors for ARKIPEL International Competition this year, that the modern world put forward an established and single perspective in interpreting [...]

Kimi to Boku literally means ‘you and me’. I believe that the title of this film actually represents Dr. Huyung’s hope, deep down in his heart. The words ‘you and me’ can be used both in the [...]

At the end of this curatorial program, Riar Rizaldi stated that watching films can be one of the most subversive action to resist contemporary regime of capitalism. By retreating into a black box [...]

This 88 minutes film has successfully narrated and raised the complexity existed in Africa. For me, Jean-Marie Teno has succeeded in presenting how the physical and intellectual colonialization [...]

One of the works of the pioneering director in establishing the identity of the Indonesian national film that I will watch on the first day was entitled "Anak Perawan di Sarang Penyamun" (Virgin [...]

According to Akbar Yumni, one of the ARKIPEL’s curators, the main role of lounge at film festivals is to provide an egalitarian space for the participants. For him, a lounge—or party—can be a [...]

Through film editing which, in my observation, was done abstractly, I was intrigued to explore how the presentation of the film was based solely on visual and without narration. Perhaps that was [...]

The experiences of Bucket Riders in the films presented by Zbyněk Baladrán makes me realize that seemingly meaningless things actually have outstanding significance to create change. [...]

Hanoi DocLab focuses on giving workshops and preserving local creativity and independent thinking, since it was founded. In addition, the institute also often holds weekly screenings for [...]

Those two films have an almost identical story outline, on how the two main characters represent their life as a minority itself. However, the difference is seen from how it was depicted. In the [...]

As far as I'm watching these four films, I enjoy how these four films present the objectivity in each of their plots. After the films were finished, the applause of 14 audiences closed the [...]

Jihyeon Song, the young curator from South Korea becomes one of the presenter in ARKIPEL Penal Colony with her program titled “Closure” which was screened in the screening studio Kineforum on [...]

This curatorial program tries to invite us to be more critical to observe the septum of penal colony. Apparatus of penal colony always lives around us, forcing us to accept their logic, and [...]

Through the film, the four directors were cleverly inviting the audience to be sensitive to every detail appears on the screen, to be able to grasp the meaning intended by them. Capturing the [...]

Sejak pertama kali dilaksanakan di tahun 2013, ARKIPEL telah diniatkan sebagai lokus distribusi dan produksi pengetahuan sinema dengan jangkauan ruang yang luas, baik secara lokal maupun [...]

This closing panel took on theme relevant to the situation of the activity on watching cinema in this millennial era. Film, which is identically known mediated through the screen, has evolved [...]

This panel attempted to raise and re-examine anthropological aspects to see the cultural spaces which emerges in the reciprocal relationship between technology and society.

This third panel discussed the ideal position and strategy of a collective or an active community or organization in the realm or activities related to film, whether in production, presentation [...]

The opening for the exhibition KULTURSINEMA #4 becomes one of the event to celebrate ARKIPEL Penal Colony – 5th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, 2017. This event [...]

The second panel of total five panels in the Festival Forum ARKIPEL Penal Colony - 5th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, 2017, focuses on curation and its [...]

The progress of media technology today affects all aspects of life, including the habitus of moving images. The easiness in accessing information becomes the early sign of change in the old [...]

With a paper and presentation entitled When Dead Labor Speaks: Subjectivity, Subjugation, and Meta-Cinema, Fang-Tze elaborated the practices of artists and filmmakers relating to the problems, [...]

Selamat kepada para partisipan yang terpilih sebagai peserta undangan Festival Forum ARKIPEL Penal Colony!

Pada Forum Festival 2017, ARKIPEL Penal Colony – 5th International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival menghadirkan Fang-Tze Hsu sebagai Pembicara Kunci. Di acara pembukaan forum,

Tahun ini, ARKIPEL Penal Colony – 5th International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival memilih dua kurator muda di Asia untuk mengisi Program Kurator Muda Asia, menanggapi tema “Penal Colony”.

ARKIPEL Penal Colony - International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2017 dengan bangga mengabarkan lima juri yang menentukan penghargaan bagi empat filem terbaik tahun ini.

ARKIPEL Penal Colony - 5th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival membuka pendaftaran untuk volunteer festival pada 21 Juli – 3 Agustus 2017.

ARKIPEL membuka pendaftaran bagi perwakilan komunitas-komunitas di seluruh Indonesia, untuk menghadiri Forum Festival ARKIPEL Penal Colony. Pendaftaran ini terbuka untuk umum dan tidak dipungut biaya.

Pada penyelenggaraan tahun ini, dengan tema besar “Penal Colony”, ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2017 membuka kesempatan bagi seluruh pegiat kebudayaan [...]

alkisah, seorang protagonis yang tiap kembali dari tualang dalam kehidupan sosial di luar, lantas memasuki kamarnya dengan selalu membiarkan pintu kamar itu tidak tertutup rapat.

How are then speculations over the findings that require cinematic mapping finally able to change the ways we gaze this world, which has been convicted as the era of a screen?