Politik Estetika Setelah Screenlife dan Desktop Documentary

Program Notes

The representation process of physical reality questions the fundamental shift in our relationship with reality, where reality is no longer presented in front of the camera, but represented on the screen instead. Recent post-optical or post-cinematic films, which seem to abandon the process of “transferring reality from the object to its reproduction” (André Bazin), spark discourse on the role of representation and politics. Post-optical documentaries do not seek to represent reality anymore.

This session seeks to formulate and process questions about representation and politics that have gained new relevance after the emergence of screenlife and desktop documentaries, with reference to Jacques Rancière’s reflections on aesthetic politics and his thesis that what distinguishes documentary films from fiction films is that they “do not treat the real as an effect to be produced, but as a fact to be understood.”

Schedule

Langgeng Art Foundation
27 November 2025, 15:00 WIB

Language of Introduction

Bahasa Indonesia, English

Speaker

Afrian Purnama

Critic, Art Researcher

Afrian Purnama is a critic, art researcher, filmmaker, and film curator. He was the editor and managing editor of the film criticism magazine Jurnal Footage in 2016–2022, editor and contributor to the book Harimau Tjampa (2021), co-curator and researcher for the Kultursinema film exhibition, and curator of ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival since 2013–2020. Afrian is the director of the film Golden Memories – Petite Histoire of Indonesian Cinema (2017) and the cinematographer of the film Amrus Natalsya Yang Membuat Kembali Keluarga Tandus Disendja (2022). He is the founder and administrator of the online film review platform, Aspek Rasio (aspekrasio.com), and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Cultural Studies at Universitas Sanata Dharma.

Min Seong Kim

Lecturer, Researcher

Min Seong Kim (PhD Philosophy, University of Essex) is a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He also serves as editor of Retorik, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by the same university. His research interests include post-foundational political thought, post-Marxist theories of ideology and discourse, and the ontopolitics of the Anthropocene. Recent academic publications include an analysis of Indonesia’s state ideological discourse of Pancasila in the Journal of Political Ideologies; a co-authored report on the local smallholders’ struggle against the New Yogyakarta International Airport in South East Asia Research; and a chapter on post-Marxism and more-than-human “pluriverse” in the edited volume, Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries.

Moderator

Valencia Winata

Film Researcher

Valencia Winata is a film researcher who has made several short videos. Since 2024, she has been part of the selection committee for ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. She was also part of the database team at Forum Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, that manages Indonesia’s documentary film collection. She is currently continuing her education in Cultural Studies at Universitas Sanata Dharma. Her research focuses on film history, aesthetics, and culture.