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Realisme Sinematik dan Mazhab Pembebasan Italia PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andre Bazin   
Friday, 24 October 2008 13:35

(This article is a translation and not available in english)

Kepentingan historis filem Paisa Rossellini telah sepenuhnya diperbandingkan dengan sejumlah mahakarya filem klasik. Tanpa ragu, George Sadoul menyebutnya sejajar Nosferatu, Die Nibelungen, atau Greed [Fritz Lang]. Saya tunduk setulusnya pada pujian tinggi ini selama penyebutannya bersama ekspresionisme Jerman itu dipahami untuk merujuk tingkat kebesaran filem dan bukan sifat kedalaman estetik pembuatnya. Perbandingan yang lebih baik bisa pula diajukan bersama filem Potemkin di tahun 1925. Selebihnya, realisme filem-filem Italia masakini sudah seringkali dihadapkan dengan estetikisme Amerika dan sebagian, dengan hasil-hasil produksi Prancis. Bukankah sejak awal, filem-filem tersebut telah menemukan realisme yang mencirikan filem-filem Rusia-nya Eisenstein, Pudovkin, dan Dovsjenko sebagai karya revolusioner baik dalam seni maupun politik, atau sebaliknya, kepada estetikisme filem-filem Ekspresionis Jerman serta pengagungan terhadap Hollywood? Paisa, Sciusca, dan Roma Citta Aperta, seperti juga Potemkin, telah mengawali pertentangan berlarut-larut antara realisme dengan estetikisme di dalam filem. Namun sejarah takkan berulang; kita mesti menerangkan bentuk tertentu pertikaian estetik itu ditinjau pada saat ini, sebuah jalan-keluar tempat neorealisme Italia berutang kejayaan di tahun 1947.

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Berseberangan dengan hasil karya yang sangat Italia serta letupan gairah dari kejutan yang diciptakannya, mungkin kita bisa menyisihkan langkah lebih mendalam kepada asal-mula kelahiran kembali ini, dan memilih melihatnya lebih sekadar kebangkitan seketika yang timbul laksana kawanan lebah dari jasad-jasad busuk fasisme dan perang. Tidak diragukan bila pembebasan dan bentuk-bentuk sosial, moral dan ekonomi Italia dipandang telah memainkan peranan menentukan dalam produksi filem. Kita akan kembali ke soal ini nanti. Nyata sudah bila kurangnya informasi mengenai sinema Italia telah memerangkap kita pada kepercayaan akan keajaibannya yang tiba-tiba.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 November 2008 14:41 )
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The Ontology of Cinematography and Reflections on Cinema PDF Print E-mail
Written by Indra Karan   
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 22:55

The ontology of cinematography and the reflections on cinema addresses the question of what film is, what makes a film a film, and to examine what Wittgenstein would call the grammar of our concept of film and the role films play in the forms of our life. The ability to record moving images therefore arrived at the modernist and histories of cinema together belong to the modernism. In the convergence of humanistic enterprise, scientific inquiry, artistic endeavor and philosophical debates that, together framed both modernism and the birth of cinema.

Cinematography is the projection of images suspended in time and space. The Images that are seemingly real have their own grammar and represent their own world, “an autonomous world”. These images that are recorded and projected, which are in constant conversation with us and are trying to say something(s), which are sometimes akin to our own experiences and beyond, and this beyond can only be mediated through participation. It is up to the man posited at both the ends that of a creator and receiver (perceiver, audience, participator, critic and Investigator) to make meaning out of these images, "the images in conversation."

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 November 2008 12:53 )
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Editorial_September2008 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Redaksi Footage   
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 16:40

(Temporarily not available in english) 

Rencana pemerintah Indonesia untuk memulai era penyiaran televisi digital harus dicermati saksama. Selama ini sistem penyiaran analog bebas mengudara (free-to-air) memang menyisakan beberapa persoalan, terutama masalah rebutan frekuensi. Dengan sistem penyiaran digital, dapat dipastikan akan lebih banyak kanal terpakai tanpa menimbulkan masalah. Sebabnya, secara teknis, pita spektrum frekuensi radio yang digunakan untuk televisi analog dapat digunakan pula oleh siaran televisi digital. Lebar pita frekuensi analog dan digital berbanding 1:6, yang berarti bila pada teknologi analog memerlukan pita selebar 8 MHz untuk satu kanal transmisi, maka pada teknologi digital, dengan memakai teknik multiplek, dapat digunakan untuk memancarkan 6-8 kanal transmisi serempak dengan program berbeda.

Selain didukung oleh teknologi penerima yang mampu beradaptasi dengan perubahan lingkungan, televisi digital juga didukung oleh sejumlah pemancar yang membentuk jaringan berfrekuensi sama sehingga daerah cakupan siar bisa diperluas. Dengan begitu, akan terjadi efisiensi pemanfaatan kanal frekuensi, di mana satu kanal dapat diisi 4-6 program sekaligus, dengan kualitas digital definisi standar (standard definition) maupun definisi tinggi (high definition). Kemungkinan multi-penyiaran membuat sistem ini bisa jadi solusi pengembangan televisi berjaringan, seperti diamanatkan oleh undang-undang penyiaran No. 32 tahun 2002, yang mengusung semangat desentralisasi dan otonomi daerah warisan orde reformasi.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 15:18 )
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Reality in Ladri di Biciclette PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mahardika Yudha   
Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:00
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Last 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 reality that was portrayed as it is. How can I believe that the film was made to let reality as set and goes without making any conflict of image? I remembered at one occasion when I have to hide behind the trees for the road in Taman Bunga Cibubur (Eastern Jakarta) was appointed as shooting location once I passed by. Was the conflict of image occurred if my walkthrough ensue as footage in that film? Would the film’s illusion broken because of it? And what about the practice of video that since the very beginning became so close to genre of neorealism?
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 September 2008 18:24 )
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Me and Periferry 1.0 PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 21:27
“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 City

January 2008. It was rainy in Jakarta and winter in Guwahati. This was my first inter-season Asia travel and the destination is a city in India. I only recognize India in books, including Banerji’s Pather Panchali and Aparajito and Tagore’s poem To the Java Land, the poem he wrote when visited Indonesia. Also not forgetting, the visual experiences I attain from Indian films, starting from Satyajit Ray to Bollywood productions.
City of Guwahati located in Assam district. Positioned in the northeast and has borders with Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indo-China. The location is tenuous with conflict. Everyday, there always circulate the news about clashes between militias and the Indian military. There are a lot of militant groups in Assam alone. One of the famous is the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). The group name’s easily find along the town wall of Guwahati. So famous this group is, and also other groups, make my visit to Calcutta and my stays in Guwahati apartment, has to be guarded and watch protectively.
The geographical matter, ideological conflict and the demography in northeast India triggered the multitude of the Northeast India and Its Transnational Neighborhood in 17-18 January 2008, a conference which hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology of Guwahati. The conference also became a milestone of two cultural activities which organized by Desire Machine Collective. The first was the Inner Lines visual exhibition, curated by Mriganka Madhukaillya. The second was, the initial artists residency in Guwahati, called Periferry 1.0, involving seven artists from six nations. These activities refer to the concept of border and its consequences. The cross-cultural matter that follows, communicates through visualworks. Arts Network Asia (ANA) and International Artists Association KHOJ were the foundations that support the activity.
Last Updated ( Friday, 15 August 2008 15:51 )
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Membaca Isyarat Tak Terpahami Michael Haneke PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mirza Jaka Suryana   
Friday, 03 October 2008 19:16

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Michael Haneke mungkin menjadi sutradara paling menarik untuk dicermati dalam sejarah sinema kontemporer. Lahir tahun 1942 di Muenchen, Haneke tumbuh di pinggiran kota Austria, Wiener Neustadt. Belajar psikologi, filsafat dan teater di Universitas Wina dan bekerja sampingan sebagai penulis filem dan kritik sastra. Sebagai sutradara, karyanya mulai dikenal melalui filem The Seventh Continent (1989). Filem Code Unknown, yang dibintangi Julliette Binoche, Alexandre Hamidi, Josef Bierbichler, Thierry Neuvic, Luminita Gheorghiu, dan Ona Lu Yenke, menegaskan posisi Haneke sebagai sutradara penting dunia.

Filem Code Unknown dimulai dengan adegan seorang gadis tunarungu memberikan isyarat tak terpahami kepada teman-temannya. Tak satupun jawaban teman-temannya yang bisa diterima sebagai kebenaran. Adegan kemudian dilanjutkan perjumpaan Jean (Alexandre Hamidi) dengan Anne (Juliette Binoche) di jalanan kota Paris. Jean digambarkan sebagai pemuda serampangan yang kabur dari rumah, dan mencari perlindungan abangnya (Theirry Neuvic), seorang wartawan foto yang sedang bertugas di wilayah Balkan. Anne, yang merupakan pacar abangnya itu, sedang tergesa sehingga tidak mampu menanggapi persoalan Jean dengan baik. Dia mencoba membayarnya dengan makanan dan kunci apartemen, dengan syarat Jean tidak boleh tinggal di sana selamanya. Masalah baru dimulai ketika Jean melemparkan sampah bekas makannya kepada Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu), seorang yang akhirnya teridentifikasi sebagai imigran Rumania di kota Paris. Adegan ini seakan menunjukkan rasa frustrasi Jean karena permasalahannya tidak mendapat tanggapan baik. Seorang guru musik keturunan Afrika, Amadou (Ona La Yenke), melihat peristiwa penghinaan itu dan meminta Jean meminta maaf pada Maria. Jean menolak, Amadou memaksa sedang Maria mencoba kabur dari kericuhan.

Last Updated ( Monday, 06 October 2008 22:44 )
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Filem Si Tjonat: Keluaran Pertama dari Jakarta Motion Picture Company PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kwee Tek Hoay   
Monday, 01 September 2008 17:10

(This article is only available in Bahasa Indonesia)

Ketika di tahun 1903, suratkabar Perniagaan [Kabar Perniagaan, 1903-1930], yang dahulu diterbitkan sebagai suratkabar khusus iklan, pimpinan F. D. J. Pangemanann— pada masa itu berisi berita-berita melayu yang paling berharga dan digemari oleh pembaca, tiada lain adalah cerita-cerita populer terjadi di masyarakat. Mengikuti kemauan pembaca di waktu itu, F. D. J. Pangemanann memuat di Perniagaan beberapa cerita yang direkayasa dari Djawa Koe’on, dan di antara cerita-cerita itu, yang paling terkenal adalah cerita "Si Tjonat", pemimpin penyamun di daerah Tangerang.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 September 2008 02:34 )
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The Wind Will Carry Us: Communication Redefined PDF Print E-mail
Written by Otty Widasari   
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:00

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 capture it, in the vast land cover with gold color. Thus, the link of communication is show by the film of Abbas Kiarostami, The Wind Will Carry Us.

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And so it is, the long spiritual journey performs by Behzad and crews which about to filming the traditional death ceremony in Kurd village, Shiah dareh. This journey brings modern culture with them and stays in the midst of traditional culture full of women, children and old men. Functionally, the story want to share the idea of social character of the Kurdish men as voyagers and always traveling outside their barrio to works, going to school or fight for independency. This spiritual quest confirm an action of searching for treasure which hidden for thousand years, in one of the heart location of the Iranian civilization history and was an ancient city where originate the Kurdish, the place that even called as the first step of the Aryan which now introduce as Iran, the place of the cross culture between west and east.

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Bilal: Between Freedom and Fascism in Punk Ideology PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mirza Jaka Suryana   
Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:00

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 (2008) still plays the exterior forms of identity. However, Bilal may well be a reference to analyze the condition of our contemporary world.

Bilal

For me, watching Bilal pealed the azan in punk clothes and its haircut shows the contradictory directions. The first direction of this videowork is a deliberation to overturn the traditional muslim perspective on the way the muezzin’s dressing. The director seems to reaffirm that the person’s outfit doesn’t reflect certain ideology or community. Punker who is a muezzin may well be a contradiction, for in the traditional muslim beliefs, Bilal is a man with good way of dressing, in term that he had never wore slapdash clothes, let alone with the mohawk style haircut.

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