A subtle disruption to the system arises from the daily lives of people on the "periphery", as reflected in two curated films here. Even though they do not fully agitate the dominating [...]

A subtle disruption to the system arises from the daily lives of people on the "periphery", as reflected in two curated films here. Even though they do not fully agitate the dominating [...]

The screening of the International Competition 9 program was held online since December 12, 2021. Previously this program had been held offline at Forum Lenteng cinema on December 6, 2021.

Before the Western culture was deemed as the zenith of art, science, politics, and economy, there was a time when the Western and Eastern knowledge were on equal footing. 

This curatorial at least invites and reminds us to see not only what is on the screen but also the shadow behind it. This shadow can assume the form of a bitter history, a collective trauma or [...]

There are two films shown in International Competition 06: Flox (2019) and Anak Merak (2019). Both films explore the position of the camera in the community it exposes.

Diary of Cattle (2019), directed by Lidia Afrilita and David Darmadi, was screened on December 3, 2021 in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone.

It is said that the daughter of a monarch remained a virgin to old age because of her beauty, a kind of beauty that intimidated men. On the princess's grave, a flower grew between her breasts, [...]

These eight films offer the new possibility of language, perspective, and creativity that can be achieved by this moving image technology called cinema.

In this film, the glass box was imagined as a medium to carry the plants stolen from Asian or African colonies by the colonial invaders, back to their origin countries. Bo Wang and Pan Lu [...]