Ugeng T. Moetidjo Archives — ARKIPEL

Personality of the Body that is Constantly Demanded to be Impersonal

Agatha Danastri Dian Pertiwi — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 06:35:04 +0000

Questions regarding personal body space of human being are always going to be an endless problem, especially if that person lives in an area where freedom has an expensive price tag. Personal body is something that is primordial of an individual, more often than not demanded to also develop its discourses and revealing them in a communal space. Would the human being forever lives behind the “human being are a social entity”, which eventually trapping them in an uncertain situation of its own bodily personality?

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What “The Situation Turned Around” Is

Wienda P. Novianty — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:00:34 +0000

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 screening session in GoetheHaus, Jakarta.

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Marginality and Thrownness

Agatha Danastri Dian Pertiwi — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:00:33 +0000

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 meaning although we can't get it 100%, because these films are also a cultivation of their own artistic characteristics. Without reducing the essence and message to be conveyed, these four films delivered the message through things beyond the activity of talking.

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After Nation: A Memoria Passionis in Cinema

Anggraeni Widhiasih — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 05:50:10 +0000

Indeed when I watched this film I did get the impression of memoria passionis or collective memory about the suffering. The nation building process of Philippines in the era of Spanish colonialism was related closely to the stories happened after the death of Jose Rizal as a martyr of the revolution. In terms of context, the historical background of Indonesia is actually can be told in similar way. The collective memory of the suffering experienced by Indonesian mainly related to the colonialism era and the events surrounding the year 1965. Unfortunately, we seem to not having the same anxiety and persistence to create a work revealing our qualified memoria passionis history.

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From “Corrosive” to “Angst”

Yosephine Gunawan — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:47:40 +0000

Monday afternoon, August 22nd 2016, I attended two programs of International Competition in ARKIPEL, in a row. First screening was started at 1 pm, and the second one was at 4 to 6 pm. I also watched the International Competition 9: “Angst”, curated by Akbar Yumni, a Forum Lenteng member and also film critics.

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For The “Nameless”: Notes on “Flow” Curatorial Program

Yosephine Gunawan — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 06:30:07 +0000

Umi Lestari brought a very relevant discourse in Europe; migration. She used a symbol that was ‘Flow’ of which was often identified as a domination that dragged us into. In a river, there were only two probabilities to respond flow; joining it, or making new current as its counter-flow.

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