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...

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...

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...

(available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Sejak munculnya filem di Indonesia tahun 1900, banyak artikel-artikel di media massa cetak yang kritis membahas kehadiran filem di masyarakat. Penerbitan kembali artikel sejarah filem oleh Jurnal Footage adalah...

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...

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...

(This article temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) La Chinoise bisa dianggap semacam pamflet politik sekaligus pamflet artistik dalam bahasa sinema Jean-Luc Godard. Melalui adaptasi lepas dari novel Fyodor Dostoevsky tahun 1872, The...

The independent bioscope emerges as a form of struggle from majority of bioscopes. But what fight it is exactly? Probably none, because speaking about struggle in films which calls independent in Indonesia might be complicated and end up to nowhere....

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....

Some time ago I was browsing new media arts networking site www.rhizome.org. Surfing the site, I stumbled upon a video uploaded by John Michael Boling entitled Time Piece (1964) by Jim Henson. This eight-minute video is one of the experimental works...

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...

(available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Jurnal Footage akan menampilkan seri wawancara antara Eric Rohmer dan Barbert Schoeder mengenai Isu Filem dan Kisah-kisah Moral. Terjemahan wawancara dalam bahasa Indonesia ini akan dirangkai menjadi tiga bagian,...

Upon seeing the people as depicted in Pixar/Disney’s WALL-E, I was instantly reminded of a day in anthropology class back in my university days. That day, the professor elaborated human physical evolution which is only predictable to...

Michael Haneke is probably the most interesting director in the contemporary cinema history. Born in Munich, 1942, Haneke grew in suburb Austria, Weiner Nestadt. Having learned pschycology, philoshophy and theater at the Vienna University and make...

Why do you pick the theme ‘Comedy’ for the fourth OK. Video?We believe the theme comedy correlates to the socio-political state our country is now in. It’s an attempt to look for collective ways of catharsis, not to burden ourselves with...

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...

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...

The opening of OK. Video—4th Jakarta International Video Festival 2009 held in the National Gallery, Jakarta on July 28, 2009, was jam-packed. That night, Hafiz, Festival Director, along with Tubagus “Andre” Sukmana (Director of Indonesia...

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...

(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....

(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Tahun 2008, Forum Lenteng mengadakan rangka kerja Cerpen Ke Filem, sebuah upaya untuk mengeksplorasi bahasa sastra ke dalam bahasa filem. Rangka kerja ini menghasilkan sembilan filem, yang sudah...

(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Ia bukanlah buku yang diterbitkan secara mandiri, tetapi merupakan terbitan khusus dari INDONESIA Madjalah Kebudayaan untuk edisi Januari dan Februari 1953. Majalah Indonesia memiliki tradisi untuk...

On August 19, 2009, Indonesia Visual Arts Archive launched the first visual arts archives website in Indonesia, iclick.IVAA. On the occasion, Jurnal Footage interviewed Farah Wardani, Executive Director of IVAA. The following is our interview. Can...

(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,...

The political reform of 1998 is an important history in the life of Indonesian. The current of changes occurs everywhere. But, after ten years, what can we achieve? The film screenings of ten years political reform has trying to open the space...

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...