Fritz Lang and The German Expressionism
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Fritz Lang is regarded as one of the main directors in the early history of film. As a representative of expressionism in the 1920’s, he has made some of the most important German silent film. During the repression of German Nazi party, he left to...

House of Cards: Dari Kino Eye Ke Kino Brush
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Apa yang menarik dari sebuah videoklip? Seperti yang kita kenal selama ini, industri hiburan (musik) selalu menempatkan videoklip sebagai pelengkap untuk mempresentasikan penyanyi/grup musik yang...

Mimicking Mimicry: Notes on the 4th Purbalingga Film Festival 2010
Thursday, 03 June 2010
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...

Jermal dan Totalitas Neorealisme
Monday, 06 July 2009
(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...

Sergei Eisenstein, Notes of a Film Director
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
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...

Rentjong Atjeh
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
(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...

Ariani Darmawan: Independent Bioscope as Struggle
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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....

Sejarah Seni Sebagai Seni (9): Pelajaran Rusia
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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)...

Watch and Discuss the Movie at Kinoki Jogja
Thursday, 12 June 2008
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...

Éric Rohmer (4 April 1920 – 11 January 2010)
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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...

“Media” In the Mind of Rafaël Rozendaal
Friday, 19 February 2010
In a number of video and media art exhibitions that I attended, video works emerge as a vital part in the presentation of media art. But how do we define video “works”? From the classic perspective, video is defined as non-narrative audio visual...

Religion, Politics, and Povertization in Los Olvidados
Tuesday, 16 December 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...

ScreenDocs! di Goethe Institut Jakarta
Monday, 13 July 2009
(Only available in Bahasa Indonesia) Selasa, 7 Juli 2009 program screenDocs! Regular kembali diputar di Goethe Institut, Jakarta. Program ini diselenggarakan oleh In-Docs, sebuah organisasi di bawah Yayasan Masyarakat Mandiri Film Indonesia....

Lisabona Rahman
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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...

Antichrist: Teologi Visual Lars Von Trier
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
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...

The Wind Will Carry Us: Communication Redefined
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
A machine from modern civilization, consists of modern men crossing the winding cracking hills road to find hard location and no sure direction except for the signs of nature. The location to find is somehow remote. Color gradation on the sun...

Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (7): Menara Gading
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
(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...

Ten Directors From The Ten Years of Political Reform
Thursday, 12 June 2008
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...

Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (3): Muka yang Tak Terlihat
Monday, 28 September 2009
(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...
Silent Film Orchestration at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Originally, silent film was simply tracked by a single pianist as its sound theme. Then, in its development, silent film follow by an orchestra. Newest compositions are then, perform. Last wednesday, May 14th 2008, an ensemble from Vietnam...

Soal-soal Seni Pada Filem Disaat Ini
Thursday, 12 June 2008
(This article is only in Bahasa Indonesia) Dimuat di MINGGUAN SIASAT edisi Minggu-12 Nopember 1950, Minggu-19 Nopember 1950, Minggu-26 Nopember 1950, dan Minggu-3 Desember 19501927 adalah tahun yang sangat berarti bagi dunia filem. Tahun itu menutup...
Reading Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown
Friday, 03 October 2008
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...
Paranormal Activity: A Terrifying Sound Pollution
Saturday, 19 December 2009
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...

Der Letztze Mann: The Independence of Murnau’s Cinema
Thursday, 17 December 2009
In a scene, a doorman attends to the entrance of a luxurious hotel; dignified in gesture, alert and ready to serve every guest. A very friendly figure among the hustling hotel guests. At one time, two ladies are exiting. It’s a little rainy when...

"jadi Zizek memang enak. Bisa ngomong "seenak"-nya, bis...
Setelah beberapa lama, ada kendala teknis pada fasilitas komentar d...
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proyek new media art yang sebetulnya kembali pada sejarah visualisa...
tapi tonton dulu, soalnya suka ada PROMOTION ONLY yang muncul tiap ...
mmmm...von trier telah lama mati...bagi saya film ini tetap bermutu...
akhirnya yakin juga bahwa film keren ini ada maksudnya (lho!!) haha...
Boleh deh argumentasinya, tapi saya tetap bersepakat dengan para kr...
la'u cari aja di ambassador ato di lapak bajakan. banyak yg jual . . .
lom nonton filmnya juga,ada di jual ga yak???