(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...

Faculty of film and television of the Jakarta Arts Institute (JAI) is re-hosting the 10th ‘Directional Film Festival’. What’s make it different?  Aside from emphasizing social matters theme, the title of each category taste really sloppy.The...

Pada tanggal 11 januari 2010, dunia sinema telah kehilangan seorang sutradara, yang karya-karyanya cukup memiliki siginifikansi terhadap sejarah bentuk dalam estetika film. Adalah Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer atau Jean Marie Maurice Schérer dan...

Alam memang memiliki cara tersendiri untuk menyampaikan pesan. Dalam satu bulan terakhir terjadi sebanyak 30 gempa kecil maupun besar di bumi Indonesia. Tiga gempa di antaranya termasuk besar. Pertama Tasikmalaya, Jawa Barat, lalu Yogyakarta, dan...

(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) “Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back”. - Nam June Paik (1932-2006)   Pada tahun 1948 penulis Inggris George Orwell menulis “1984”, sebuah novel...

There is usually no time to build a relationship with the image: if we are not in motion, then the image is designed to pass us by in an instant. - Frances Guerin dan Roger Hallas, 2007 The above statement from two writers of visual culture seems to...

Exhibition7-13 August 2010, 10am-5pm (Sunday closed) VenueGoethehausJl. Sam Ratulangi No. 9-15 Menteng, Jakarta Pusat OpeningFriday, 6 August 2010, 7pm Videotalk with Anggun Priambodo (music video maker) and Indra Ameng (curator)Friday, 6 August...

There’s so much one can do upon reflecting history. In the Western world, interpretation of cultural history continues to roll until today. It’s the essence of cultural history: to be reinterpreted continuously by consecutive generations. The...

QueriesLast night was my numerous silenced on one of the Italian neorealism, Ladri di Biciclette (1948), a film by Vittorio de Sica from the script of Cesare Zavattini. I was stunned in the film exposes on the reality of post-war Italian society....

(only available in Bahasa Indonesia) Film Nyai Siti Atau De Stem Des Bloeds (Suaranya Darah)1Keluaran The Cosmes Film Corporation di BandungPanorama2, No. 175, 10 Juni 1930, Tahun ke 4Pada malam Minggu tanggal 22 Maret telah kita saksikan film...

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...

Resensi Buku Judul Buku: Sejarah Film 1900-1950: Bikin Film di JawaPenulis : H. Misbach Yusa BiranPenerbit : Komunitas Bambu & Dewan Kesenian JakartaTahun Penerbitan : Cetakan ke II, Agustus 2009Tebal Buku : xxxiv + 446 hlmPenulisan peta...

The 2009 Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) is adorned with Indonesia Feature Film Competition (IFFC) that proved the quality of our national films in the international level. Films screened in IFFC are selected based on theme, narration,...

(This article is a translation and not available in English)Mimpi akan filem bersuara sudah nyata. Dengan ditemukannya teknik filem bersuara, Amerika sudah lebih mendahului dengan mementingkan dan mempercepat pemanfaatannya. Dengan tujuan sama pula,...

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...

Pada penyelenggaraan Festival Film Purbalingga (FFP) keempat ini, FFP menghadirkan tema “Melihat Kita”. Melihat Kita adalah sebuah ajakan untuk melihat dan menilai kembali kejadian-kejadian di sekitar kita dalam aspek sosial dan budaya....

(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...

*(Or rather, are declared as often):Amidst a State of Dependence, A New Philippine Cinema is Born.The term independent once meant something in Philippine Cinema. It was reserved for such luminaries as Rox Lee (the great animator), Raymond Red (the...

The ontology of cinematography and the reflections on cinema addresses the question of what film is, what makes a film a film, and to examine what Wittgenstein would call the grammar of our concept of film and the role films play in the forms of our...

The film Tarzan goes to City (Tarzan ke Kota) is labeled as a remake of City Tarzan (Tarzan Kota) starred by Indonesia legendary actor, Benyamin Sueb and directed by L. Sudjio. This film has its first run on 4 December 2008.The Indonesian...

(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,...

Matahi, a native man of an island in South Pacific called Bora-bora, falls in love with a girl named Reri. One day, Hitu, a tribe leader sent by leaders of each island of the archipelago, comes to take Reri as a replacement for their late sacred...

Tracing the Genealogy of World’s Video Art The development of Indonesian video art in the last decade has been satisfactory. Several visual art events have included video art as part of contemporary art exhibition. Video art has even invaded...

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...

What film struck you most? Fiction and documentary: film. Until two years ago, when I stepped out my room to watch The Mirror, a film of Jafar Panahi, I was feeling awakened to the category of certain films that for a long time quieting my mind. If...

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...

(This article is a translation and not available in english) Kepentingan historis filem Paisa Rossellini telah sepenuhnya diperbandingkan dengan sejumlah mahakarya filem klasik. Tanpa ragu, George Sadoul menyebutnya sejajar Nosferatu, Die...