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...

(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Di blog pribadinya, Hanung Bramantyo menyebut filem Doa yang Mengancam memiliki pesan untuk bercermin diri. Menurutnya, filem ini bertema keikhlasan. Manusia menjadi bersahaja karena dirinya ikhlas....

Sergei Eisenstein is arguably the most important single figure in the history of movies. He was certainly the most versatile. The director of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein also wrote ground-breaking essays on...

  Bruno dies, unexpectedly, after a shoot-out with the police. Almost no destruction caused by the firing, not even bloodshed. Plot moves flat, without any pretention of emotional violence. It constructs and is a violent climax in a gangster film...

Negotiate The Discourse of Audio Visual at The Alternative Bioscope   Public demand on alternative bioscopes are numerous. Unfortunately, this huge exigency is not supported by the aspirant management of the movie place. The activity of screening...

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),...

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...

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....

(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia)   PENDAHULUAN Bayangkan diri kita berada dalam situasi standar kecemburuan khas chauvinisme pria: tiba-tiba saja, saya mendapati pacar saya berhubungan seks dengan pria lain. Oke, tak masalah, saya seorang pria...

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...

(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,...

A young man rides in a bajaj with his pregnant lover, passing through Jakarta’s slums in the 1970s. Child beggars in the city’s labyrinths become a syntagmatic connection to bajaj. The young man is a university student named Sony (W. S. Rendra)1...

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....

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 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...

(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...

Video Community Should Attain Their Independency   It was started from the catastrophic Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006, Kampung Halaman came and offered society empowerment trough video. They aim at youngsters. The unique methods made Kampung...

(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...

‘Is there any sign?’This question asked four times by a caller in the video The Endless Steps from Maulana Adel Pasha. Question which is so important for the caller to find the house. The transaction of sign thus occur. A bargain of subjective...

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)...

A film firstly released as an opening to the 2009 Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) was already attracting crowd even before the week of its release ended. Audience seemed to be very enthusiastic to kill their curiosity over this sequel...

Jean Epstein (1897-1953) One of the foremost directors of the French silent cinema, Epstein is also remembered as a cinematic theorist whose writings such as Ecrits sur le cinema examined the philosophical impact of film. Epstein's works, considered...

(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...

We May Not Accomplish Anything After a Decade of Political Reform   To commemorate the ten years of political reform, Proyek Payung held a screening event of the ten short films from ten young directors at Kineforum Jakarta, May 12 to 20th 2008....

(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...

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...

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...