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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
Taiwan Documentary: Into the Time Capsule
Read articleMoments and times flew by in a split second. For centuries, humans, as though possessed, had tried to find ways to stop time; for a better chance to immerse himself…
Spektrum: Spaces and Places
Read articleDocumentary has always been dynamically evolving. New styles and approaches are constantly surfacing, while the boundaries between fiction and documentary increasingly blurring. Documentary is no longer viewed as merely journalistic…
Perspektif: The Right to be Lazy
Read articleWhat comes to mind when we hear the word “work”? At first–and in general, work is deciphered merely as an act of fulfilling needs. However, work then creates a dilemma…
Film Review: Electro-Pythagoras (2017)
Read articleA profile movie, be it in the form of documenter or fiction, often depicts a character or a subject told as a special, flawless being. This impression is the result…
Film Review: Etage 39 (2017)
Read articleHow does someone interpret a spatial experience? And how do they express their preferences of it? Etage 39 (2017) was a project that tried to answer the questions. Nicolas Boone held…
Film Review: Wine Calling (2018)
Read article‘Eating’ –as a verb– in fact isn’t merely about what is served on the plate. It’s a festive ritual, an intersection as a beginning of a long process. A sequence…
Film Review: Beautiful Things (2017)
Read article“Flee, my friend, into your solitude! I see you deafened with the noise of the great men, and stung all over with the stings of the little ones. Forest and…
Doc Music: Humanizing Music Through Discussion
Read articleWe do not know since when music becomes not only about audio, but also visual. The 21th century is also having its own dynamics about the merging of both elements…
Dear Memory, Trinkets of The Past: Reviewing Memory and Reality of Truth
Read articlePast, present, and future time mingle into one unity about time concept, event that is following it forming memories that is can not be separated from human. Human brain is…
Film Review: The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
Read articleMirror, becoming a space that showed woman persona in every situation. That aspect is presented by Mark Rappaport in “The Vanity Table of Douglas Sirk” (Mark Rappaport, 2014). Snippets from…
Film Review: Merci Patron!
Read articleBuildingg ruins in Poix-du-Nord showed the greatness of the factory that gave life to so many workers in the past. But, after the factory moved to Poland, the workers’ life…
Interview with Takuro Kotaka, Director of The Village’s Bid for UFO
Read articleTakuro Kotaka, a documentary filmmaker from Tokyo, Japan, is having his own unique way to documented a social issues. Through “The Village’s Bid for UFO”, he catched native citizen’s responses…
Letting go of the Past from History Concentration through Discussion
Read articleDeparting from film scrrening of Spektrum program | Dear Memory : Facticity, Festival Film Dokumenter 16 was also holding Q&A session on Sunday (10/12). Located at IFI-LIP, this session attended…
Learning Film and Criticism in Film Criticism Workshop FFD 2017
Read articleThis year, Lokakarya Kritik Film (Film Criticism Workshop) presented for the first time in Festival Film Dokumenter 2017. This workshop conducted as a response on a necessity of our cinema…
Questioned the Truth in Documentary through Discussion about ‘Post-Truth’
Read articleDiscussion session with the topic ‘Post-Truth’ that raised by Festival Film Dokumenter as the main theme in Perspektif program this year had been held on (12/12). The discussion opened by…
