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 [...]

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 [...]

Those two films have an almost identical story outline, on how the two main characters represent their life as a minority itself. However, the difference is seen from how it was depicted. In the [...]

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 [...]

Through the film, the four directors were cleverly inviting the audience to be sensitive to every detail appears on the screen, to be able to grasp the meaning intended by them. Capturing the [...]

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 [...]