Last May in Theaters

Synopsis
Jakarta and Gwangju are two significant cities that sparked the birth of democracy in Indonesia and South Korea, toppling dictators through people’s power in May 1998 and 1980. This work tells the story of the daily lives of two ticketing cinema staff during those May incidents. They never experienced it directly or went onto the streets to face the soldiers, yet the stories they heard and the voices that reached them felt like an endless war film replaying in their minds. This film is also woven from fragments of memories of people living around Jakarta and Gwangju and represented through found footage, film clips, and significant cinematic events that occurred in the same month.
Schedule
21 November 2025, 15:30 WIB
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Credits

Arief Budiman
Arief Budiman is an artist and filmmaker based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In recent years, Arief’s artistic practice has been closely linked to the internet, archives, and collective memory related to the history of violence. According to him, archives and technology are some instruments that can open up other possibilities in reading past events.

Rugun Sirait
Rugun Sirait is a researcher living and studying in Vienna and Indonesia. Works around digital ethnography, documentary films, and exploring sounds. Interested in the intersection of digital media, anthropology, and the publicness the field affords, she has translated her research into non-text installations.
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