Getting ready for ARKIPEL homoludens
Siap-siap ARKIPEL homoludens
by Dini Adanurani
Notes on ARKIPEL preparations
Rangkaian acara ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival akan dimulai dalam hitungan beberapa jam. Jajaran panitia dan koordinator sudah mulai disibukkan dengan berbagai persiapan yang ada. Mengikuti persiapan ARKIPEL homoludens menimbulkan rasa gugup karena acara yang semakin mendekat, namun pada saat yang bersamaan ada semangat yang membuncah karena tak sabar menonton filem-filem eksperimental yang akan ditayangkan, dan tentunya karena tak sabar menyaksikan jerih payah teman-teman terbayar pada saat pelaksanaan.
Persiapan mulai intens di sore Minggu (5/8) saat Hafiz Rancajale selaku Direktur Artistik mengumpulkan warga Forum Lenteng untuk rapat koordinasi yang terakhir. Setelah rapat, para koordinator mulai sibuk bersiap-siap mendata barang untuk mobilisasi ke sekretariat ARKIPEL di gedung Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, sekaligus mengedit proyek filem yang akan tayang di ARKIPEL homoludens bagi kelompok Milisifilem yang belum menyelesaikan filemnya.
Keesokan paginya, sudah dimulai mobilisasi untuk perlengkapan sekretariat dan pemasangan instalasi untuk pameran Kultursinema di Galeri Cipta III. Siang harinya, di tempat yang sama, para volunteer mulai berkumpul untuk mengikuti briefing. Briefing dipimpin oleh Andang Kelana selaku Manajer Festival dan Dhanurendra Pandji selaku Koordinator Volunteer. Selanjutnya, ada briefing di kelompok kecil perihal opening ceremony yang dipimpin oleh Prashasti Wilujeng Putri selaku Manajer Lapangan dan Olivia selaku Humas.
Sore beranjak malam, persiapan di sektor Kultursinema masih tetap berjalan. Di malam hari, mural bertema Ganefo mulai dilukis di Galeri Cipta III. Persiapan display terus berjalan sampai keesokan harinya, berlanjut ke lokasi pemutaran lainnya, yaitu Kineforum dan GoetheHaus. Di Kineforum, para panitia memasang poster-poster film yang akan ditayangkan di dinding ruang tunggu. Sementara, di GoetheHaus para panitia mempersiapkan Forum Festival hari pertama.
Tamu-tamu undangan pun mulai berdatangan. Helen Petts, seniman dan pembuat film dari Inggris, tiba di Jakarta Selasa pagi. Ia adalah salah satu panelis dalam Forum Festival ARKIPEL homoludens, dalam panel keempat “Melampaui Kolaborasi”, dan filemnya akan ditayangkan dalam program kuratorial “Mendiferensiasi Lanskap ke dalam Polemik Bentuk sebagai Siasat atas Fetisisme Naratif”. Di malam harinya, Azar Mahmoudian tiba di Iran. Dalam rangkaian ARKIPEL homoludens, ia turut diundang sebagai salah satu juri dan kurator program bertajuk “Tentang Konspirasi dan Resusitasi”.
Di hari ini, tamu-tamu yang telah tiba antara lain Findo Bramata Sandi dan Choiru Pradono, keduanya adalah panelis untuk Forum Festival. Findo, mewakili Rel Air Cinema akan mendiskusikan “Peran Komunitas dalam Menentukan Bahasa Sinema Kita”, sementara Choiru, pengajar di ISI Pandangpanjang akan berbicara tentang “Pendidikan Filem Sekarang dan Masa Mendatang”. Selain itu, ada pula Scott Miller Berry, filmmaker dan seniman dari Kanada, yang pernah menjadi juri di ARKIPEL 2016: social/kapital.
Forum Festival ARKIPEL homoludens akan dilaksanakan besok mulai pukul 09.00 di GoetheHaus. Acara akan dibuka oleh pidato Akbar Yumni yang bertajuk “Ludic dan Kebertubuhan di Era Digital”, disusul dengan tiga panel simposium lainnya, yang bertajuk “Ludic dan Performativitas”, “Kritisisme Filem dan Lembaga Perfileman”, dan “Pendidikan Filem Sekarang dan Masa Mendatang”. Sedangkan pembukaan pameran KULTURSINEMA #5: Gelora Purnaraga akan berlangsung pukul 19.00 di Galeri Cipta III. Mari rayakan!
ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival will start in a couple of hours. The entire committee and coordinators are getting busy with the preparations. Following through it makes me nervous because of the approaching event, but at the same time, a festive spirit is in the air, anticipating the experimental films that are going to be screened, and waiting to see our friends’ hard work getting paid off upon the performance.
The preparation intensifies on a Monday evening when Hafiz Rancajale as the Artistic Director gathered the citizens of Forum Lenteng for the last coordination meeting. After the meeting, the coordinators started listing equipments for mobilization to ARKIPEL’s secretary at the Jakarta Arts Council building, while at the same time, editing our film project for members of Milisifilem that has not finished their films yet.
The next morning, mobilization for equipments and installation display for the Cinema Culture exhibition in Galeri Cipta III has started. At 2 PM, volunteers started to arrive for the general briefing. The briefing was conducted by Andang Kelana as the Festival Manager and Dhanurendra Pandji as Volunteer Coordinator. After that, another briefing regarding the opening ceremony was conducted in smaller groups by Prashasti Wilujeng Putri as Field Manager and Olivia Afina as Public Relations.
During nighttime, Cinema Culture exhibition preparation was still ongoing. The Ganefo murals were painted in Galeri Cipta III. On the next day, preparations started on other screening venues, which is Kineforum and GoetheHaus. In Kineforum, the film posters were displayed on the waiting room, while in GoetheHaus the committee prepared the auditorium for the first day of Festival Forum.
Guests were arriving. Helen Petts, an England-based artist and filmmaker, arrived at Jakarta on Tuesday morning. She is one of the panellists in Festival Forum of ARKIPEL homoludens who will speak in the fourth panel “Beyond Collaboration”, and her film would be screened in a curatorial program titled “Differentiating Landscape: Polemics of Form as A Strategy to Overcome the Narrative Fetishism”. Azar Mahmoudian, a curator based in Tehran, arrived later in the night. In ARKIPEL homoludens, she is invited as one of the judges and curator, her program is titled “Of Conspiration and Resuscitation”.
Today, some of the guests who have arrived are Findo Bramata Sandi and Choiru Pradono, both of them are panellists for Forum Festival. Findo, representing Rel Air Cinema will discuss “Role of Community in Determining Our Language of Cinema”, while Choiru, a lecturer in ISI Pandangpanjang will talk about “Film Education: Current and Future Practice”. Scott Miller Berry, filmmaker and artist from Canada, also has arrived today. He was the festival jury for ARKIPEL 2016: social/kapital.
ARKIPEL homoludens’ Festival Forum will be held tomorrow, starting from 09.00 at GoetheHaus. The event will be opened by Akbar Yumni’s speech, titled “Ludic and the Embodiedness in the Digital Age”, followed by the next three symposium panels titled “Ludic and Performativity”, “Film Criticism and Film Institution”, and “Film Education: Current and Future Practice”. While the opening of KULTURSINEMA #5: Passion of the Perfect Body will be held at 19.00 in Galeri Cipta III. Let’s celebrate!
