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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]