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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…
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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,…
Festival Strategy, Curatorial Work, and Their Interplay
The Curatorship & Context: Strategy of Festival & Networking panel session was held at Pascasarjana…
Teka-teki Sinema Film Programming Workshop 2025 Has Been Conducted
The first edition of Teka-teki Sinema film programming workshop has officially wrapped up. The workshop…
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Photography, Cinema, and the Liminal Space Between Them
Read articleDOC Talk’s session, “Foto: Ruang-Waktu Sinema” (lit. Photo: Cinema Space-Time), held at Langgeng Art Foundation (23/11), opened a discussion on the shifting boundaries between photography and cinema. Rather than look…
A Black-and-White Film about the Colorful Life of Individual Distortion
Read articleThe screening of A DISTORTED INDIVIDUAL. (Adythia Utama, 2025) was held for the first time on 22 November 2025 at Langgeng Art Foundation. The film is competing alongside three other…
Reading the Movement, Looking for the Signs: A Range of Experiments in the Student Competition Program
Read articleThe FFD 2025 Student Competition program, screened at Kedai Kebun Forum on Saturday (22/11) at 15:45 WIB, highlighted an important aspect: documentaries are not just a genre, but also a…
Rewriting Legends Through A Vague Outline
Read articleThe screening of Short Competition compilation took place at Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta on November 22nd, 2025 as a part of Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2025. This session screened a compilation…
The Gamble: Where Wounds and Transformation Intertwine in Planet of Love (2022)
Read articleHow can a film move beyond the screen and transform itself into social action? In response to that question, Festival Film Dokumenter 2025 presented a DOC Talk session entitled Ringan…
Stripping Away the Layers of Reality in Ep.10 Reality Sandwich: Jogja Chronicles with Ho Bin Kim
Read articleAt the screening room of Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta (21/11), the question of what is meant by “reality sandwich” echoed after the screening of the documentary Ep.10 Reality Sandwich: Jogja Chronicles…
Challenging a Single Historical Narrative through Archives and Art
Read articleOn a bright afternoon, Cemeti–Institute for Art and Society–grew ever more alive with visitors. On that day, Saturday (21/11/2025), the exhibition entitled In the Darkness, I Hold Memories, in collaboration…
Inside Liminal Spaces, Liminal Bodies
Read articleQueer and trans geographies make one think of space as more than a mere container of human activity but rather as a site where power and identity are played out…
Loved to Ruins
Read article“I loved you like Icarus loved the sun—too close, and too much.” You have probably seen that quote on the internet, floating between love poems and sad girl edits. Perishable…
The Labour of Computer Vision and Its Precarious Workers
Read articleTree_trunk. Vegetation. Human, authority_figure, construction_worker. Object. Building. Vehicle, emergency_vehicle, police_vehicle. Sky. This is how the computers see things, trained by invisible workers who annotate real world objects for them. “Millions…
Portraits of a Cycle of Power, Deconstructed
Read articleThailand is in a perpetual and (vicious) cycle of politics—which even has its own Thai term: wongchon ubat. That phrase is an all-encompassing term for the recurrence of coups in…
Those who Still Blooms in a Drowning World
Read articleModernity comes like a promise, instead it turns into a flood. In the mountains of northeastern Cambodia, a village called Kbal Romeas is slowly disappearing under the water of an…
Like Bodies, the Ground Keeps the Score
Read articleThe underground is a collection of geological and anthropological memories. It is an accumulation of non-human processes and human activities. Humanity has only contributed to a small portion to this…
The Decolonial Struggle Is an Ecological Struggle Is a Racial Struggle Is a …
Read articleCongo was colonized by Belgium under the regime of Leopold II. Disguising itself as a “civilizing” mission, he convinced European powers to recognize his claim of the Congo as his…
The Sound from Migrant Workers in the Park
Read articleA couple sits across from each other in a park. They share questions and stories about their lives in the land, far from home, hundreds of kilometers away from their…
