Monisme
Synopsis
Several professional actors and non-actor professionals portray a dynamic of human-nature relationship in one of the most active stratovolcano in the world, Mount Merapi. In the shadows of recent eruptions, these actors play a story that is written together with a volcanologist, sand miner, and a mystic–people who have a close bond with the mountain–potentially illustrating fiction and nonfiction situations that could and would have happened in Merapi.
Schedule
1st Screening
6 December 2023, 19:00 GMT+7
Credits
Riar Rizaldi
Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. His practice explores the relationships between science, technology, labour and nature, alongside competing worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibilities of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as Singapore Biennale (2025), Thailand Biennale (2025), Museum of Modern Art New York (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Istanbul Biennial (2022 & 2025), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Biennale Jogja (2021), Centre Pompidou Paris (2021), National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. Recent solo exhibitions and focus programmes have been presented at Almanac, Turin (2025); Gasworks, London (2024); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2024); Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt (2024); the Centre de la Photographie Genève (2023); and Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto (2023), among others.
Details
2023 - SGIFF | Competition
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