A Pamphlet of Our History in Ruma Maida
Sunday, 08 November 2009
Ishak Pahing dies amid a gunfire volley during an air raid of the plane he was on with his friends. This scene opens the film Ruma Maida (Maida’s House), directed by Teddy Soeriaatmadja, and as scriptwriter, Ayu Utami—the writer who shook...

Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (7): Menara Gading
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) ANEKA, No. 17 Tahun VI 10 Agustus 1955 (VI) Dalam perkataan filem mutlak terselit sesuatu yang 100%. Obyeknya sendiri menjadi gejala tulen atas kenyataan sebenarnya yang menjadi citra sederhana dan kenyataan yang...

Jonas Mekas’ Cultural Archives
Thursday, 23 July 2009
“In Lithuania, I’m known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe, they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick.” —Jonas Mekas, The New York Times, June 12,...

Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (2): Pengaruh Sandiwara
Wednesday, 02 September 2009
(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Jurnal Footage akan memuat kembali tiga artikel tentang sejarah filem yang ditulis oleh tiga penulis berbeda: Herman Pratikto dan H. Asby (Indonesia) dan B.J. Bertina (Belanda) yang sudah diterjemahkan oleh...

Two Sides of Film Competition Arrangement
Monday, 01 December 2008
Having trauma to the pressure of two fascist states, Germany and Italia, at the selection of Venice Film Festival in the last 1930’s, Jean Zay, French Minister of Education, decided to held a festival in France. By then, precisely in 1939, Luis...
Interview with Bronnt Industries Kapital
Friday, 10 July 2009
Geometer: I only came to hear of Häxan through your soundtrack - it’s a great film and I was surprised I’d not heard of it. How did you first hear of the film? Guy: We were first approached to perform a live soundtrack to the film at...

Sejarah Seni Sebagai Seni (9): Pelajaran Rusia
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Aneka No. 21 THN VI, 20 september 1955 (Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Tahun 1927 pertama kali dipertunjukkan filem-filem Rusia di Eropa. Filem-filem seperti The Battleship Potemkin (1925) buatan Sergei Eisenstein, Mother (Ibunda, 1926)...

Paranormal Activity: A Terrifying Sound Pollution
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Haxan, a work of a Swedish director, Christensen, is a horror film full of strong social political issue. Haxan does not only picture human apprehension to all things supernatural. More than that, Haxan is a historical documentary portraying social...

Documemory: A Bibliography
Thursday, 04 June 2009
A. Documentary Film100 Années Lumière. Retrospéctive de l’oeuvre documentaire des grands cinéastes français de Louis Lumière jusqu’à nos jours. Paris: Ministère des affaires étrangères, 1991.Barnouw, Eric. Documentary: A History of the...

Fritz Lang and The German Expressionism
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Fritz Lang is regarded as one of the main directors in the early history of film. As a representative of expressionism in the 1920’s, he has made some of the most important German silent film. During the repression of German Nazi party, he left to...

Teater yang Difilemkan
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Jurnal Footage kembali menampilkan seri wawancara antara Eric Rohmer dan Barbert Schoeder mengenai Isu Filem dan Kisah-kisah Moral. Ini adalah bagian kedua dari seri wawancara Eric Rohmer dan Barbert Schoeder....

Di Dasar Segalanya: A Surrealistic Image of Anxiety
Sunday, 20 December 2009
On December 17, 2009, I had the opportunity to watch Paul Agusta’s second film, Di Dasar Segalanya (At the Very Bottom of Everything) at Kineforum, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta. Unlike his first film, Kado Hari Jadi (The Anniversary Gift),...

Violence in Films: Critique to the Film Kado Hari Jadi
Monday, 30 November 2009
How do we summarize violence derived from day-to-day reality? Blood! It’s the easiest language to frame the violence and sadism of an occurrence. Adding to it, gory utensils such as knife, screwdriver, hammer, and razor. Then, how do we envelop...

Melati van Agam: Produksi Paling Baru dari Tan's Film
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
(available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Pengantar Filem Melati van Agam diadaptasi dari novel yang ditulis oleh Swan Pen yang bernama sebenarnya Parada Harahap (1899-1959), salah satu tokoh pers nasional yang telah bekerja di Pewarta Deli,...
Mimicking Mimicry: Notes on the 4th Purbalingga Film Festival 2010
Thursday, 03 June 2010
According to Teshome Gabriel, the first period of third world cinema is Hollywood films. The second is by mimicking Hollywood films, i.e. identifying themselves to Hollywood films. We can see traces of mimicry in the early production of Dutch Indies...

Maulana ‘Adel’ Pasha: In The Future Video Will Replace Film
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The distribution of video in the world and Indonesia in particular, is extra rapid. According to a research, one out of ten Indonesian using video for various purposes. The development of cameraphone technology making the access easier for the...
Dominasi Maskulin dalam Filem PPC
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Perempuan Punya Cerita. Sebuah Filem garapan empat sutradara perempuan muda Indonesia. Satu ulasan mengatakan bahwa filem ini lebih pantas berjudul "Perempuan Punya Derita” karena penderitaan tanpa-akhir yang dialami hampir semua tokoh perempuan...

Today, Short Film (Not) in the Hands of Konfiden
Monday, 23 November 2009
Time will keep an eye on them (Konfiden, Independent Film Community—ed.), their consistency and persistence will be tested, how they can stay true with their current vision. As well as how far—should there be developments—the activists remain...

Prelinger Archives: Daily Life Archives
Thursday, 03 December 2009
"The film your about to see, represence a significant breakthrough of the advancing science of the motion picture. For years, the industrial film has been pledge by the always-difficult sometime impossible-to-explain cost of the original creative...

Chris Marker: In Memory of New Technology
Friday, 12 June 2009
1. An Awkward MemoryI remember discussing Chris Marker’s most recent feature film, Level Five (1996), with a friend of mine when it first came out. She was generally impressed with the film, but irritated by what she described as “an old man’s...
Jermal dan Totalitas Neorealisme
Monday, 06 July 2009
(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Filem Jermal meneguhkan kembali kaidah-kaidah neorealisme. Filem cerita panjang kedua yang disutradarai Ravi Bharwani bersama Rayya Makarim, Utawa Tresno dan diproduseri oleh Orlow Suenke ini...

Me and Periferry 1.0
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
“Through many years, at great expenses, journeying through many countries, I went to see high mountains, I went to see oceans. Only I had not seen at my very doorstep, the dew drop glistening on the ear of the corn.” –Visva Bharati.On the...

Alex Sihar: A Challenge to Familiarize the Language of Video
Sunday, 23 August 2009
This year, Yayasan Konfiden (Independent Film Community Foundation)—a foundation focusing on the development and distribution of audio visual media knowledge and usage to sustain empowerment as well as to gain appreciation and support—by public...

In Memoriam: Alexis Tioseco (1981-2009)
Thursday, 03 September 2009
Compiled by Jurnal Footage It was a great shock, having heard the news about the tragic murder of one of the best Southeast Asia Film Critics, Alexis A. Tioseco. He was so young. So passionate. When it come to talk about film, he will eagerly...

Watch and Discuss the Movie at Kinoki Jogja
Thursday, 12 June 2008
The name was took from a community which founded in the 1920’s Russia by Dziga Vertov. The mere meaning was Eye of a Camera. According to its name, Kinoki focusing their activities by making film with documentary method, which is recording all...

"jadi Zizek memang enak. Bisa ngomong "seenak"-nya, bis...
Setelah beberapa lama, ada kendala teknis pada fasilitas komentar d...
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proyek new media art yang sebetulnya kembali pada sejarah visualisa...
tapi tonton dulu, soalnya suka ada PROMOTION ONLY yang muncul tiap ...
mmmm...von trier telah lama mati...bagi saya film ini tetap bermutu...
akhirnya yakin juga bahwa film keren ini ada maksudnya (lho!!) haha...
Boleh deh argumentasinya, tapi saya tetap bersepakat dengan para kr...
la'u cari aja di ambassador ato di lapak bajakan. banyak yg jual . . .
lom nonton filmnya juga,ada di jual ga yak???