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....

The distribution of video in the world and Indonesia in particular, is extra rapid. According to a research, one out of ten Indonesian using video for various purposes. The development of cameraphone technology making the access easier for the...

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...

‘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...

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)...

1. An Awkward MemoryI remember discussing Chris Marker’s most recent feature film, Level Five (1996), with a friend of mine when it first came out. She was generally impressed with the film, but irritated by what she described as “an old man’s...

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....

"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...

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...

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...

(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) 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...

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...

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...

(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...

(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...

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...

“Demi masa depan, aku harus tinggalkan. Ah…abang, demi cita-cita…” Ini adalah salah satu potongan lirik lagu dangdut yang dinyanyikan Dian Sastrowardoyo saat berperan sebagai Dona Satelit di filem 3 Doa 3 Cinta. Goyang pinggul dan riasan...

A film firstly released as an opening to the 2009 Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) was already attracting crowd even before the week of its release ended. Audience seemed to be very enthusiastic to kill their curiosity over this sequel...

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...

Jurnal Footage will publish articles about the video "Tepian Sungai Ciujung" in three parts, written by Akbar Yumni. This is the second part of the articles. The mind is yet to be free if the medium is not liberating. It’s probably in line with...

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...

Ishak Pahing dies amid a gunfire volley during an air raid of the plane he was on with his friends. This scene opens the film Ruma Maida (Maida’s House), directed by Teddy Soeriaatmadja, and as scriptwriter, Ayu Utami—the writer who shook...

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...

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...

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...

*(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...

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...