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It Is Not So Much That the Artifacts Are Mute, as That We Are Deaf
Huaqueo is a practice of gravedigging to obtain pre-Columbian artifacts. The people who practice are…
Directing Film, Directing Life
I am 25, a woman still navigating my own “film”: messy, uncertain, full of detours,…
Cleanliness is Part of Faith, They Say
“Cleanliness is part of faith.” That dogmatic proverb has long been internalised into the bodies…
The Sound from Migrant Workers in the Park
A couple sits across from each other in a park. They share questions and stories…
Tracing Memory through the Things in a Room
A while ago, I found myself in my rented room, repacking my belongings and preparing…
To the Inevitable Death, I Love You
The tight grip of two elderly couples reading a book loosens as they turn the…
Highlight
A Black-and-White Film about the Colorful Life of Individual Distortion
The screening of A DISTORTED INDIVIDUAL. (Adythia Utama, 2025) was held for the first time…
Challenging a Single Historical Narrative through Archives and Art
On a bright afternoon, Cemeti–Institute for Art and Society–grew ever more alive with visitors. On…
Photography, Cinema, and the Liminal Space Between Them
DOC Talk’s session, “Foto: Ruang-Waktu Sinema” (lit. Photo: Cinema Space-Time), held at Langgeng Art Foundation…
The Grand Transversal Process of La Casa Grande
On 24 November 2025, the screening of Short Competition was held at Kedai Kebun Forum,…
Outreach Activities of filmdokumenter.id: Bridging Education and Documentary Films
In the first quarter of 2025, Forum Film Dokumenter Database Program team organized a series…
Festival Strategy, Curatorial Work, and Their Interplay
The Curatorship & Context: Strategy of Festival & Networking panel session was held at Pascasarjana…
Index
What’s Recorded and Left of the Indigenous People’s Resistance
Read articleWhat happens when indigenous people have to live with extractive and massive industrial practices? How do these circumstances and narratives appear in the media and documentaries? What do we imagine…
City of Photos (2004): The Temporarily Life in the Forever Image
Read articleWhen their mothers buy them new clothes, they know what to do: take pictures at the studio! So says director Nishtha Jain, opening her story in City of Photos (2004).…
Garden Amidst the Flame (2022): Women’s Imagery in A Truly Manly Customs
Read articleShave your eyebrows and you will be able to see spirits, they said. Perhaps Mikha was right. Her sister, Virsay, returns home to a greeting from their non-human ancestors. Instead…
Taste of Hope (2019): A Cup of Hope Brewed Tea
Read articleTo persevere and be born again and again is the ultimate act of struggle. At least, that’s what the Fralib factory workers stood for after Unilever tried to relocate them…
An Asian Ghost Story (2023): Hong Kong, Living the In-Between Tresses
Read articleThere’s a lot we don’t know about on this earth, and one of those mysteries is that hair holds a lot of stories. Ever thought about whose hair is used…
Fragments from Heaven (2022): What are We Searching for?
Read articleThrough the tale of the search through the Moroccan desert for fragments of a meteorite, Fragments of Heaven (Adnane Baraka, 2022) paints a picture of human nature, our differing motivations,…
A Wander into the Ocean (2022): Take A Deep Breath and Close Your Eyes
Read articleExploration of the relationship between humans and the universe is a powerful break to then observe reality as it should be. The waves, islands, and sea breeze in A Wander…
I WAS THERE (2023): The Old Man & A Little Boy
Read article“My name is Dr. Shuntaro Hida. I am a physician. On August 6, 1945, I was in Hiroshima, witnessing the atomic bombing.” A deadly mushroom cloud graced the morning sky…
Feeling the Apocalypse (2022): Facing Your Climate Anxieties
Read articleHave you ever thought about how the world is heading towards its end due to the climate crisis? Have you ever felt like you’re the only person who ever came…
Behind the Sun (2023): The Otherworld Beyond the Light
Read articleRhetorical questions about what kind of life lies beyond the sun often linger in the back of our minds. However, as technology advances and astrophysics progresses, these questions are slowly…
RITUAL, Part IV: The Blends (2023): The Sights and Sounds that (Uneasily) Shape Samarinda
Read articleRobby Ocktavian presents Samarinda as you’ve never seen it before in RITUAL, Part IV: The Blends (2023). The East Kalimantan city has always been rich in natural resources, which is…
The Golden Thread (2022): Spinning the Fibre, Threading the Dream
Read articleIn the midst of the collapse of the jute industrial glory days due to the massive plastic industry, millions of laborers still rely on the noise and dust of jute…
The Secret Garden (2023): From Hopeful Bloom to Haunting Gloom
Read articleSectioned into 8 chapters, the enigma of The Secret Garden (Nour Ouayda, 2023) deepens as it twists its beautiful narrative against the backdrop of Beirut’s history. The documentary’s mysterious aura…
L’Ombra di Rasputin (2022): Ecological Conservation through A Nonhuman Perspective
Read articleHumans have always been an egomaniac that had the will to dominate, take no forfeit, and become masters of anything around them. Ecological conservation may be an attempt by humans…
Di Balik Rupa (2023): Putting on Make-Up of Terror
Read articleIn 1983, Subarkah Hadisarjana was in his junior year at Institut Kesenian Jakarta (IKJ) when he received an offer to work on a film project at Pusat Produksi Film Negara…
