merv espina Archives — ARKIPEL https://arkipel.org/tag/merv-espina/ Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Sat, 18 Aug 2018 17:55:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 51814669 A Unique Mixture of Old and New Cinema a la Kidlat Tahimik https://arkipel.org/homoludens-a-unique-mixture-of-old-and-new-cinema-a-la-kidlat-tahimik/ https://arkipel.org/homoludens-a-unique-mixture-of-old-and-new-cinema-a-la-kidlat-tahimik/#respond Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:46:05 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=9002 When in comes to the cinema documenting the history, it is unusual for us to find a serious production with heavy voice of its narrator. The cinema will appear very grande by inserting footages from the original old film from a specific archive. However, we don’t find such things in the documentary of history made by Kidlat Tahimik, an artist and filmmaker from Phillipines.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/homoludens-a-unique-mixture-of-old-and-new-cinema-a-la-kidlat-tahimik/feed/ 0 9002 Focus On Kidlat Tahimik: The Screening of Who Invented the Yo-yo? Who invented the Moon Buggy https://arkipel.org/homoludens-focus-on-kidlat-tahimik-2/ https://arkipel.org/homoludens-focus-on-kidlat-tahimik-2/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:00:16 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8989 On its seventh day of event, Tuesday, August 14th 2018, ARKIPEL homoludens – 6th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, screened the films of Kidlat Tahimik. Kidlat Tahimik is a renowned artist and film director from Philippines. The achievement from the films he produced has made him one of the most important filmmakers in South East Asia cinema.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/homoludens-focus-on-kidlat-tahimik-2/feed/ 0 8989 Returning to the Root of Tree with Kidlat Tahimik https://arkipel.org/homoludens-returning-to-the-root-of-tree-with-kidlat-tahimik/ https://arkipel.org/homoludens-returning-to-the-root-of-tree-with-kidlat-tahimik/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:00:41 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8980 The atmosphere on Tuesday (14/8) at Kineforum has started to be more crowded. About an hour before the screening, people began to queue to get the ticket to watch an oeuvre of KidlatTahimik, The Perfumed Nightmare (1977). Kidlat, who often dubbed as The Godfather of Philippines Independent Cinema, holds a very youthful spirit even in his 75 years of life.

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]]> https://arkipel.org/homoludens-returning-to-the-root-of-tree-with-kidlat-tahimik/feed/ 0 8980 Heading to the Program of Kidlat Tahimik https://arkipel.org/homoludens-heading-to-the-program-of-kidlat-tahimik/ https://arkipel.org/homoludens-heading-to-the-program-of-kidlat-tahimik/#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:12:58 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8936 Kidlat Tahimik also presented his installation work when two of his films were about to be screened under the program of Focus on Kidlat Tahimik curated by Merv Espina. At that time, Sardono, one of Indonesia’s famous dancers, came to ARKIPEL to meet Kidlat.

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