{"id":56625,"date":"2025-11-08T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/?p=56625"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:05","slug":"the-elderphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/film-review-en\/the-elderphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minimalist concept is used in delivering a personal and intimate storytelling, making <em>The<\/em> <em>Elderphone<\/em> (2025) a different way of framing a harsh reality. A structure simultaneously reduces and expands the discourse on how family bonds intertwine with death and erasure\u2013or perhaps the eternal preservation\u2013of memory.<\/p>\n<p>There is a \u201cstreak of audacity\u201d in the soul of this film\u2019s storytelling, a breath that is mischievous yet warm with its own translation. Director Iqbal Keane Kembaren pictures his conversation with his grandmother, who acts like she has a \u201ccheat sheet\u201d of life. A static movement of the camera is able to wrap this film, which leads us to see his grandmother&#8217;s life. Several names are presented, becoming the cheats about what has happened and will happen in her life, or theirs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50079 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Elderphone-Still-03.jpg\" alt=\"The Elderphone (2025)\" width=\"2408\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Elderphone-Still-03.jpg 2408w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Elderphone-Still-03-500x224.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Elderphone-Still-03-1280x574.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Elderphone-Still-03-768x344.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2408px) 100vw, 2408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one who briefly passed through, who is now gone, and whose life remains unknown to us. The phone number and basic information about Grandma Karo reveal themselves layer by layer, except for her real name. However, we know the whole story in less than 20 minutes. <em>The Elderphone<\/em> is the incarnation of an eternal preservation and a strong intervention regarding the connectivity between death and technology, a gripping metaphor about memory and the way to make or erase our own destiny. (Gantar Sinaga) (Ed. Vanis\/Trans. Shafira Rahmasari)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Details <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Elderphone<br \/>\nIqbal Keane Kembaren | 18 min | 2025 | North Sumatra<br \/>\nOfficial Selection for <strong>Lanskap<\/strong><br \/>\nFestival Film Dokumenter 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minimalist concept is used in delivering a personal and intimate storytelling, making The Elderphone (2025) a different way of framing a harsh reality. A structure simultaneously reduces and expands the discourse on how family bonds intertwine with death and erasure\u2013or perhaps the eternal preservation\u2013of memory. There is a \u201cstreak of audacity\u201d in the soul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":50076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"edition":[781],"class_list":["post-56625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-review-en","edition-ffd-2025-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56625"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=56625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}