ARKIPEL Bromocorah – 7th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental 2019 began with the opening of the Kultursinema Exhibition #6: Gelora Indonesia on August 18, 2019 at the National Museum. The next day, as ARKIPEL’s intention to continue to provide critical space for the public and map the development of contemporary cinema, the Forum Festival which was divided into five panels was held again at GoetheHaus, Goethe Institut Jakarta. After Forum Festival ended on the evening of August 20, 2019, on the same day ARKIPEL film festival 2019 was opened by a performance titled “The Partisan” by Otty Widasari and her Theater Group and four opening films from the International Competition program. Kultursinema #6 exhibition, which seeks to examine the development of cinema in Indonesia, has arrived at a transition period between the Old and New Order. Where, in this period the Gelora Indonesia films were produced by the Government and through it, we could read how Indonesianness was imagined by our past regime in Indonesia. In addition to curating the Gelora Indonesia, this year Kultursinema also screened films from the restoration and programs focused on Abduh Aziz. This year, Kultursinema collaborates with PFN, ANRI, and the National Museum. The exhibition has been held from 18 August 2019 to 25 August 2019. Forum Festival invited 15 panellists from various backgrounds to discuss “bromocorah” as the theme of ARKIPEL 2019. Otty Widasari opened the Forum Festival by delivering a presentation entitled “bromocorah” which discussed the subject of bromocorah in Indonesia, their political positions, and finally discussed several examples of related films. In this presentation “bromocorah” shifted from the subject to a “concept” that ARKIPEL tried to read. Ronny Agustinus, Manneke Budiman, and Philippa Lovatt are on one panel trying to respond the theme “Bromocorah: Its Position in the Social, Political, Cultural Context” in Indonesia, Asia, and Latin America. The second panel with the theme “Bromocorah in Film Aesthetics” presented Manshur Zikri, Garin Nugroho, and Edwin as panellists. Maria Christina Silalahi, Dini Adanurani, and Umi Lestari became the next panellists, they tried to do case studies according to their fields in reading “bromocorah” in the panel entitled “Case Study of the Bromocorah Phenomenon”. Still at GoetheHaus, the next day on August 20, 2019, the Forum Festival continued. The first theme of the day was “Experimentation of Art and Performance” which presented Irwan Ahmett, Tonny Trimarsanto, and Jasmine N. Trice. Gorivana Ageza, Taufiqurrahman, and Rosalia Engchuan discussed topics around “Community Redefinition in the Digital Age”. This panel is the closing panel of the Forum Festival 2019. Each presentation topics and a number of papers presented will be published as books at ARKIPEL 2020. This year ARKIPEL received 1,232 film titles from 80 countries. A total of 28 films passed to take part in the International Competition. Two of these films came from Indonesia, Sapu Angin (2017) by Cahyo Prayogo and Adegan yang Hilang dari Petrus draft #4 (2019) by Arif Budiman. In total, this year’s festival screened 55 films divided into several programs such as Kultursinema, International Competition, Curatorial, Candrawala, Special Presentation, and Special Screening program. On August 26, 2019, at Awarding Night, Sapu Angin (2017) received the Peransi Award. Following that, Centar (2018) by Ivan Marković from Serbia and The Love of Statues (2019) by Peter Samson from UK won the Jury Award. ARKIPEL Award as the highest award received by The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil or Mùa Cát Vọng (2018) by Pham Thu Hang from Vietnam. The four juries who determined the selection of those films for the three awards were Hafiz, Mahardika Yudha, Akbar Yumni, and Scott Miller Berry. This year’s Forum Lenteng Award was awarded to the film Blues Sides on the Blue Sky (2018) by Rachmat Hidayat Mustamin from Indonesia. The ARKIPEL bromocorah – 7th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival awarding night were closed by a performance titled Plague (Electron Edition) by Theo Nugraha. After ARKIPEL took place, Scott Miller Berry held a 16mm film making workshop at Forum Lenteng with eight participants. Year Jakarta, Indonesia
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ARKIPEL bromocorah – 7th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
