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...

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....

Los Olvidados is a work of one of the surrealist movement figures, Luis Bunuel. Born in Spain, 22 February 1900, grow in Mexico. Luis Bunuel finish Los Olvidados in 1950. This picture become one important work that inspire many pictures around the...

“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...

  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...

Watching Free and Great Movie in Almost Everyday   It get bore sometime to watch movies in the common bioscopes. Mostly because of the standard plots. And also with same players. To face this condition, the emergence of an alternative bioscope...

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...

*(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...

(available only in bahasa Indonesia) ANEKA, No. 13 Tahun VI 1 Juli 1955 (V) Di tahun-tahun sebelum 1914, di wilayah Eropa, dengan susah payah pelaku filem berusaha membuat filem, sedang di Amerika, Hollywood yang berciri industri besar-besaran pun...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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) 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...

(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,...

(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...

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...

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...

Nicolás Echevarría is a director, producer and cinematographer who has worked in both film and television, making documentaries and fiction films. One of Mexico’s prominent filmmakers. He began to make films following the massacre at Tlatelolco,...

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...

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...