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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Maklumat Filem Bersuara
Monday, 24 November 2008
(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,...
Sejarah Filem Sebagai Seni (2): Pengaruh Sandiwara
Wednesday, 02 September 2009
(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) Jurnal Footage akan memuat kembali tiga artikel tentang sejarah filem yang ditulis oleh tiga penulis berbeda: Herman Pratikto dan H. Asby (Indonesia) dan B.J. Bertina (Belanda) yang sudah diterjemahkan oleh...

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...

Elida Tamalagi
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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...

Prelinger Archives: Daily Life Archives
Thursday, 03 December 2009
"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...

Visual Overproduction of Video
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
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...

One Day We'll Only Memorizing The Celluloid
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
What film struck you most? Fiction and documentary: film. Until two years ago, when I stepped out my room to watch The Mirror, a film of Jafar Panahi, I was feeling awakened to the category of certain films that for a long time quieting my mind. If...

Berita Gempa
Thursday, 01 October 2009
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...
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...

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...
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...

Two Sides of Film Competition Arrangement
Monday, 01 December 2008
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...
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....
Interview with Bronnt Industries Kapital
Friday, 10 July 2009
Geometer: I only came to hear of Häxan through your soundtrack - it’s a great film and I was surprised I’d not heard of it. How did you first hear of the film? Guy: We were first approached to perform a live soundtrack to the film at...

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...

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....

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...
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 (6): Mata yang Dapat Mendengar
Saturday, 19 December 2009
(Available only in Bahasa Indonesia) ANEKA, No. 17 Tahun VI 10 Agustus 1955 (VI) Sutradara Fritz Lang yang termasyhur. Filemnya, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhelds Rache, disebut orang sebagai filem jenius dan citra pictural-nya dianggap sebagai mahakarya...

WALL-E: Receding to Human’s Primordial Side
Monday, 08 June 2009
Upon seeing the people as depicted in Pixar/Disney’s WALL-E, I was instantly reminded of a day in anthropology class back in my university days. That day, the professor elaborated human physical evolution which is only predictable to...

Reality in Ladri di Biciclette
Thursday, 28 August 2008
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....
Ideologi dan Fantasi (Slavoj Žižek #01)*
Thursday, 29 July 2010
(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...

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