Teleport is a tool used by Arad, while Maya with a headband-like device on its head is able to communicate telepathically with animals and other living beings. The genius biologist duo are comic book characters from the planet Mytica. Mytica’s technology is also far more advanced than Earth’s, so when using teleports, they can travel faster than light, while also being able to move matter on a local scale through the Blipper ‘teleportation staff’ controlled by a super smart and wise computer.
When we enter the theater and are willing to give up our bodies and all our senses to absorb and be absorbed (reciprocally), we are then immersed in a cinematic experience. Departing from this, the films in this program provide interesting suggestions that will take us to images of time and images of space. In addition to dealing with the present, it also takes us to the civilization of the past (deep ancient), the colonial period, world wars, and even the end of time.
Similar to the films in the previous year’s edition of the Spektrum program, this year’s selection of films, apart from being undisciplined, has the same tendency of treating the films as teleportations. The selected films use a variety approaches, through the use of archives and footage (Terra Incognita and An Asian Ghost Story), using animation (Wa’anak Witu Watu and Feeling the Apocalypse), exploring memories (I WAS THERE), conveying personal experiences or narratives (All my Scars Vanish in the Wind), or those cultivated in the production or post-production stages such as Yang Kelak Akan Retak which takes the audience to various locations of the Van Mook Line or the border between the Netherlands and Indonesia in East Java after the Renville agreement or Behind the Sun which takes us into space and to reflective questions in film production.
Filmmakers explore all these aspects at the editing table and in the production process in order to present and offer a different experience, including the experience of being someone else. The film Loneliness brings us that impression. By these filmmakers, the images of time and space are stretched and compressed, as well as the perception of reality and imagination.
The 10 films offer an experience of the past that has implications for the problems of our lives today and in the future, but also speculates to present or bring the audience to different experiences in celebrating documentaries.
– Wimo Ambala Bayang
Programmer
