Under The Tree: Garin’s Failure to Renounce Modern Monism
Monday, 28 December 2009
The 2009 Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) is adorned with Indonesia Feature Film Competition (IFFC) that proved the quality of our national films in the international level. Films screened in IFFC are selected based on theme, narration,...

Menyibak Rahasia Video
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
(Temporarily available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Pengantar (Buku Digital: "Menyibak Rahasia" Video) [ ] Di dunia sekarang ini hidup kita dikelilingi oleh video. [ ] Jika dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari kita menggunakan televisi, pita video serta...

Bilal: Between Freedom and Fascism in Punk Ideology
Thursday, 17 July 2008
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...

Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (5): Kerumitan Jiwa
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
(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...

Prima Rusdi
Thursday, 12 June 2008
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....
Video: The New Wave
Thursday, 31 December 2009
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 Last But Worst Festival
Thursday, 12 June 2008
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...

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...

Filem Pendek Sudah Mati, Tapi Tidak di Oberhausen
Sunday, 10 May 2009
(Only in Bahasa Indonesia) Selama 55 tahun festival filem pendek Oberhausen telah menjadi ajang bertemunya sutradara, distributor, pembeli dan peminat filem pendek dari seluruh dunia. Sebagai bekas kota industri, dengan tingkat pengangguran yang...

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...

The Endless Steps: Transaction of Sign Agreement
Monday, 24 November 2008
‘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...
Documemory: A Bibliography
Thursday, 04 June 2009
A. Documentary Film100 Années Lumière. Retrospéctive de l’oeuvre documentaire des grands cinéastes français de Louis Lumière jusqu’à nos jours. Paris: Ministère des affaires étrangères, 1991.Barnouw, Eric. Documentary: A History of the...

Jonas Mekas’ Cultural Archives
Thursday, 23 July 2009
“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,...

Dominasi Maskulin dalam Filem PPC
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Perempuan Punya Cerita. Sebuah Filem garapan empat sutradara perempuan muda Indonesia. Satu ulasan mengatakan bahwa filem ini lebih pantas berjudul "Perempuan Punya Derita” karena penderitaan tanpa-akhir yang dialami hampir semua tokoh perempuan...

Video Mashup: A Remix Culture
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Few times ago, I was shown a video from YouTube. It was a music video Metallica Tribute to Rhoma Irama1. It may sound impossible, but all my expectations turned upside down and inside out watching this video. It’s originally a video of...

Benny Wicaksono: Surabaya Harus Mengejar Ketertinggalan
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
(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...

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...

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...

Info Festival Film Purbalingga 2010: “Melihat Kita”
Saturday, 22 May 2010
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....

Tentang Uraian Luar Layar
Saturday, 29 August 2009
(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,...

Yang Muda yang Bercinta: Early Montage in New Order Regime
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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...

Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song*
Thursday, 03 September 2009
*(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...

Melati van Agam: Produksi Paling Baru dari Tan's Film
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
(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,...
"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???