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 [...]