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A Play of Perspective: Step Further through Technology
Read articleThe digital universe is massive and fascinating, with the support of innovation which blurred the difference between digital and realistic, its appeal is unrivaled. It has been long since the…

Film Review: As You See (1986)
Read articleFor thousands of years humans have tried to answer how the world works; a question that later gave birth to philosophy, science, and technological innovation. Way of life, the concept…

Lanskap: Observing Indonesian Documentary
Read article“Lanskap” is an effort to look and discuss the various discourses that are present in and about Indonesia. This program offered a point of view to construe Indonesian documentary movies;…

Film Review: Nyanyian Akar Rumput (2018)
Read articleHuman rights violation cases always leave awful experience to a nation. Indonesia has gone through a series of serious human rights violation, from intentional murder to elimination of human rights…

Film Review: Talking Money (2018)
Read articleThis film begins with an opening quote from Karl Marx (1847), “Money is not a thing, it is a social relation.” It stress out the fact that in many parts…

Film Review: Swim Team (2016)
Read articleSwim Team (2016) is not just a documentary that speaks up about advocacy, the right to live, and inclusivity; it is a movie to be watched with your family. The…

Retrospektif: Harun Farocki – Back to Work
Read articleAs the prequel to the program “Perspektif” that questions the concept of working, this year’s “Retrospektif” tried to highlight Harun Farocki’s works in portraying labor through cinema. If today’s present…

Talking About Human through Human, Frame by Frame
Read articleVice and virtue are two concepts that will never stop being talked by humans until, probably, their extinction. The concepts become the source of reflection for philosophers, thinkers, holy scriptures;…

Little Fragment of Asia: Watching Asia Through Cinema
Read articleWhat makes it possible for us to capture various perspectives in thousands of events in Asia, by displaying various journeys as part of reality? There are many Asian films with…

The Feelings of Reality: Experiencing Disabilities
Read articleThick walls seem to be restricting the moving space for our disabled friends. Lopsided accessibility, unfriendly infrastructure, and people’s mindset on “normality” implied the affirmation of the difference between the…

Film Review: Danchi Woman (2018)
Read articleWe’ll never know since when development, advancement, and modernity became inseparable to numbers. Those numbers didn’t just stop at economic growth index worksheets but has shaped a mindset on how…

Film Review: Small Talk (2016)
Read articleMutual love between a mother and her child is often portrayed in perfect relationships. The mother presents as an ideal figure, similar to Goddess Kwan Im who was calm, fulfilling…

Film Review: Więzi (2016)
Read articleWięzi (2016) – then better known as Close Ties – is a film that shows different meaning from a close relationship. Narrated by an elderly couple, Barbara and Zdzislaw Torhan.…

Polish Documentary: Looking After the Family
Read article“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy Family could become a complicated relationship, it could also be comfortable, frustrating, and…

DocSound: Sounds in Everyday Life
Read articleSound is often placed as mere background in a film. As a musical accompaniment; as an atmosphere builder; as a soundscape that is dragged into a recording device; and several…












