Penal Colony Archives — ARKIPEL

Experimental Film as an Inspiration for Young Filmmakers

Arkipel — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:59:23 +0000

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 penal colony. To everyone who has participated in the series of activities organized in ARKIPEL Penal Colony for the last week, we hope that the message ARKIPEL wants to say can inspire all of you. More than that, we also hope that the message can be continued to many more people.

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Candrawala of Moving Images in Indonesia on 2017

Wienda P. Novianty — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 10:51:15 +0000

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.

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The Implicit Colonialism

Agatha Danastri Dian Pertiwi — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 03:11:55 +0000

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 who were trying to defend their belief by lying down on the street, when they were threatened to be dissolved because of not following the religious principle recognized by the state or the majority.

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Augmenting Realness, The Modified Reality

Yosephine Gunawan — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:00:58 +0000

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 culture, lingustics and literature were studied by me in the university, which is Germany. The rest were from China and Spain.

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Beyond the Boundary of Image, Breaking the Regime of Sensibility

Gema R. Bastari — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:00:23 +0000

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 authority to decide which image you want to see. However, sometimes you must also question whether your authority truly belongs to you or instead a construction of your daily social life?

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Huyung and The Exhibition Reluctant to Forget

Yosephine Gunawan — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:00:19 +0000

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 material seemed compatible, received the projection of Dr. Huyung’s films. It turned out that I was not alone.

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Women and a World that Mutually Negotiated through Film

Agatha Danastri Dian Pertiwi — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:54 +0000

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 misunderstanding and subjugation toward a community.

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Presentation of 5 Films from the Project of 5 Island 5 Villages

Wienda P. Novianty — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:18 +0000

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 were screened, each of the filmmakers and Heinrich Blömeke, as the directer of Goethe-Institut Indonesien, were presented on stage to start a discussion session with the audience. Manshur Zikri as the moderator led the Q&A session.

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The Spoken and Conjugated Ones With No Need of Words

Yosephine Gunawan — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 03:00:27 +0000

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 were also photograph piling on the table, whoever they are and their relationship to the protagonist. Everything I saw started from the beginning of film only left question mark which its answer I wait for in the discussion.

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Three Parts for “Penal Colony” in the Context of Latin America

Wienda P. Novianty — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 08:00:53 +0000

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 civil-military experienced by the Latin America. Grounding from the concept of short story by Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony, that screening framed the problems and images related to the values of subjugation and hatred which construct instability of society in Latin America.

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