Sonal Jain Archives — ARKIPEL https://arkipel.org/tag/sonal-jain/ Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:14:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 51814669 Pratyaksha: Living Outside the Western Understanding of Society https://arkipel.org/homoludens-living-outside-the-western-understanding-of-society/ https://arkipel.org/homoludens-living-outside-the-western-understanding-of-society/#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:02:47 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8911 Who does the world belong to? Does it belong to mother nature, which provides us the resources we need to survive? Does it belong to the Gods? Those who gave this world to us and will take it back at anytime? Or does it belong to the humans? Who, centuries ago, learned to cultivate the fields and manipulate the landscape, taking without giving?

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]]> https://arkipel.org/homoludens-living-outside-the-western-understanding-of-society/feed/ 0 8911 Curatorial Program – 04 https://arkipel.org/curatorial-program-04/ https://arkipel.org/curatorial-program-04/#respond Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:30:51 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8552 As Nicky Hamlyn argued, what is often characteristic of the narrative of a film, generally in mainstream works, is: the meaning of the image's referent occupies a position beyond questions of the film itself. In other words, the meaning is already determined (by the director).

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]]> https://arkipel.org/curatorial-program-04/feed/ 0 8552 Curatorial Program – 02 https://arkipel.org/curatorial-program-02/ https://arkipel.org/curatorial-program-02/#respond Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:31:13 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=8536 “Your kind salutes my cunt.” This [statement] from the mouth of a transvestite in the mythical town of Pushkar is an ubiquitous statement that seems to resound through the universe we encounter in the films of Swaroop and Hura. There is no place here for the individual or the anthropocentric worldview that forms the basis of the dominant discourses today and this position is taken without an apology. There is an absence of the colonized both in the traditional sense and in the techno-science sense that Virilio talks about.

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