After over a decade in prison, little trace of filmmaker and member of the leading Communist cultural movement Bachtiar Siagian’s life and work could be found, but Hafiz Rancajale still searched. Alongside his colleagues, they revise his mis-slandered history.
This video is part of Massroom Project (2003) is a documentary video project on Jakarta. The videos consist of nine works that tells nine stories about living experiences in Jakarta. Those experiences pass on various aspects of the city such as: mass transportation, public space, marginalize...
This film tries to read the idea of film archiving in the mind of Misbach Yusa Biran. A character who gave his entire life to preserve and reinterpret the discourse of film as a source of Indonesian film history. The archives stored are entirely in Sinematek Indonesia.
A piece of story which has been taken from two young men from Rangkasbitung – it’s a small town which has a distance 120 kilometers from the capital city of Jakarta. Kiwong and Iron have a profession as a tofu sellers. Kiwong sells tofu in the economy train of Rangkasbitung to Jakarta while...
New cosmopolitanism started with the bromocorah’s (free agent) dynasty. Through Palah (Panataran), we see the legitimacy of his great-grandsons appropriating the power of the Central Javanese dynasty, perpetuating the throne and cultural hegemony through the story of the man in the tkes hat,...
A story of the sacrifice of farmers in defending their land from the mining permit given by the local government to a big company in the district of Lambu.
A small story from the border of Tangerang Regency and Bogor Regency. It was there that Kang Sui Liong, the temple guard, lived with his wife and children.
A reflective biography fragment of three friends reminiscing about their college days through the ten years of the ongoing Reformation era in Indonesia.
Ronin is vegetable seller who already did his work for 20 years. every morning he meet the neighborhood and give them live just for talking and gossiping. Ronin is a witness who hear and see the "changes" and "occurances" in small communities in Jakarta. Ronin is someone who always waited by the...
"Life has given me time. However, I've never spent that time to really live." Jen is an ordinary guy with big dreams and hopes. But, time has passed him by. A lot has happened. What has Jen been doing for the past ten years? The political changes have not changed Jen's life that much. What happened...
This public transport has many story in it. Ukar, the taxi driver told what happen when you drive and meet the strangers. The conversation become really a hero story as Ukar as an actor. And it stop when the rain comes and the wiper cleaning. You can guess which one the truth.
This video is part of Massroom Project (2003) is a documentary video project on Jakarta. The videos consist of nine works that tells nine stories about living experiences in Jakarta. Those experiences pass on various aspects of the city such as: mass transportation, public space, marginalize...
