On its fifth day, Sunday, August 12, 2018, ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Fim Festival presented not only film screening, but also a film [...]

Saturday, 11 August 2018, Kultursinema Exhibition # 5: Passion of The Perfect Body gets a visit from Guruh Soekarnoputra. He is one of the figures in the world of Indonesian art and culture. He [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Indeed when I watched this film I did get the impression of memoria passionis or collective memory about the suffering. The nation building process of Philippines in the era of Spanish [...]

The fact that everyone has camera in their pocket and able to make film is very remarkable things, moreover in the videos they made is unique and artistic. But the condition will be very [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to the language of cinema in Asia, Fang-Tze said that we cannot forget the desire of national cinema that goes hand in hand with global cinema. Therefore the achievement of national [...]