Labors all around the world come down to the street in May Day, celebrating The International Labor Day in the first of May. They sounding their rights to the rulers. All governments aware and increasing the security level. Even in Indonesia, the...

"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...

“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...

(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...

Part-time Work of a Domestic Slave (Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin, 1973) tells the story of Roswitha Bronski who works to support the family while her husband, Franz Bronski, busies himself with chemistry researches in order to fulfill his...

Bilal (2006) is a first and important work of Bagasworo Aryaningtyas. The work also appeared to be a confirmation of Bagasworo identity as a true punker. His next works such as Memanjakan Tubuh/Spoiling the Body (2006) and Lingkaran X/The X Circle...

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...

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....

“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,...

  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...

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)...

Read original article   Lars von Trier adalah sutradara filem menggairahkan yang terkadang memojokkan penontonnya sampai ke sudut memalukan. Ia juga seorang maestro teologi visual. Antichrist (2009) garapannya merupakan antitesis filem gempita tak...

(This article only available in Bahasa Indonesia) J.I.F SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION 1940"RENTJONG ATJEH"Serombongan bajak laut telah menyerang sebuah kapal layar, yang sedang berlayar di Selat Malaka. Dengan dikepalakan oleh Bintara (Bisoe), kawanan...

(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...

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...

‘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...

Jurnal Footage will publish articles about the video "Tepian Sungai Ciujung" in three parts, written by Akbar Yumni. This is the first part of the articles.   "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers" - Mahatma...

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....

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...

(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...

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...

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...

(Temporarily Available Only in Bahasa Indonesia) Berawal dari mengejar "ketertinggalan", Globalappleworks dan Surabaya New Media Art Center, membuat sebuah festival video bertajuk VIDEO:WRK – Surabaya International Video Festival 2009. Festival...

(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,...

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...

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...

Read original article   Pada 1944-45 saat perang dunia kedua hampir berakhir, debut dua artistik yang sangat sedikit berdampak pada situasi politik internasional tapi akan menjadi penentu utama wilayah kebudayaan Swedia terjadi. Pertama adalah...

Percakapan antara Jussi Parikka dan Garnet Hertz Artikel asli berbahasa Inggris bisa dibaca di www.ctheory.netOriginal text in English on www.ctheory.net   Pendahuluan Arkeologi media merupakan suatu pendekatan studi media yang mengemuka sejak...

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....

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...