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. [...]