A Calming Breeze

The presence of “Retrospektif: Abraham Ravett” program is an effort to introduce the aesthetics of cinema to the audience, through the complexity of trips that can be interpreted by so many moments, events, and even from personal background to look into something more plural. Although experimental no longer be a new discourse in variants documentary, works Ravett may shed new discourse to the audience in Yogyakarta in particular.

Not just the notion that photography can evoke the memory of the past or nostalgia. The combination of medium used Ravett translate his personal journey and represent major events, his identity as a (immigrant) family history of Jews and connections through the passage of time. In each of his transcendental easily take out of context the memory of Nazi atrocities.

Through experimental documentary practice, Ravett have good commitment to the medium, as well as the consistency of translating search and memory of family background. The depiction of impressions and memories with the construction of truth in the abstract style is not simply translate a collage of memory and alignments but also a combination of documentary practice and theory.

— Sandeep Ray
Programmer