Festival Film Dokumenter 2009

The green octagon in the festival logo this year is not there without any meaning. These octagon marks indicate that the Festival Film Dokumenter will be held again. From Sunday till Saturday, Komunitas Dokumenter presents an array of documentaries and programs worth as a reference in the realm of Indonesia documentary film work.

Along with the political theme, Festival Film Dokumenter 2009 will see the political problems from a more personal and subtle perspective. Politics is no longer meant as an art to influence others. In a wide perspective, politics has always been a determination of the human relationship with a specific value system in form or at all the good aspects of economic policy, political, social system, political and also cultural.

Looking back into history, documentary was born as the first child of film. This aspect of documentary is then divided into certain directions and of course with a basic understanding that the documentary is also ‘creative treatment of reality’ inherent in a product or medi whether it was the process of documenting and distribution processes. While on the other hand, the public collective memory of Indonesia is still grueling about how provocative documentaries always are. A documentary played as a bitter story for the nation. Memory power and how it is immortalized with this medium makes the point notion of documenta favor no longer relevant in the context of reality. In fact, the documentary is a matter of reality, personal, private sphere and how it reflects reality with freedom.

Days rolled and rules changed. Human kind learns and develops documentaries. At this point the documentary grows without the attitude and clear message is considered as nothing. And politics is no longer a taboo for anyone. Propaganda became stale. The documentary has a love and hate relationship ‘differently’ with politics and the language of power. Resistant advocacy, mediation, and literacy and many other documentary derivatives function as medium in relation to politics and power are created without any worries. So what you see then is the attitude and partisanship that determines firmness and messages of conveying reality.

This year you will see man in connection with personal political territory, to see how huma as a part of the country’s smallest part become creators and actors of culture, understanding how people become subjects and objects in the economic system as well as top predators of the ecosystem in making a decisive choice. Or even worse, seeing how people have no choice and are forced to accept the option chosen.

We want to probe further about the attitudes and messages, and all the extent to which the documentary makers ‘political choice in taking partisanship. And believe that change is no longer determined by the accumulation of white collar and blue collar sweat dripping from the walls of the factory and checking the political swimmers from their own country, as well as from any other country. Because politics is selfhood, personal is the political.

Long live for the better world.

DS Nugraheni

2009 is a big year for the Festival Film Dokumenter. This year, the Festival celebrates documentary special focus on Politics: Up, Close and Personal. Showcasing films from internationally renowned filmmakers.

What Is Politics? This year, for us politics are several good and worst things that affect citizen life. About the impact of the power’s intervention to personal and communal life. How and why undesirable points are desired implicate individual lives, families, neighborhood and society. We see it as a very personal thing.

We believe that humans are created as a perfect creature. Life, peace and belief is a gift. but things sometimes make them like a wolf, when a forest named nation creates a repression fortress of freedom, injustice and then the movement, resistance and rebellion is the way out.

In 2008, thousands of Buddhist monks in Burma went down to the street. Stand for the release of Su Kg.! the regime banned all information channels out. The knows when a group of reporters armed with camera Burma V will open the festival this year with the spirit of resistance, documentaries as a political tactical struggle against the military regime in Burma. Through the eyes of a young man named Joshua, we take to a very personal point of view of politics and freedom, ordinary people, citizens, that depicts how the frame of democracy is torn down.

The Middle East, the hottest region on earth, remains one of the spotlight this year. Resistance carried out by people, writers and hip-hop community with stones and the song, against the barbed wire and guns. Across the border, a young Israeli was arrested twice for refusing military service, My F shares the experience of their first war. Apparently, the Israeli Army, they are also human beings.

Some people fight, some surrender and are defeated, even more people do not fight and become victims. Women of Nepali The Sari Soldiers is a tough soldier, amid a raging civil war, six women took up arms and how Sari and rifle is a matching combination. But some children, Sorgul and Amir, came home to find him along the highest mountains in Afghanistan, amid war and sand storms. The Sweetest Embrace shows how the beauty of nature is so quiet, when the country was founded on a celebration of war flames.

We’re still going to meet a Japanese who lost her son in the World Trade Center, dreaming peace in Afghan Roach and Starbuck’s duo with very ‘punk’ style try to make their own political party, music story reconciliation in Cuba, and the ballad that speaks Esequiel Hernandez border issues and illegal workers.

And of course, a valuable lesson excerpt from John Pilger, greed and power of empire is not invincible; a people’s power is always the “seed beneath the snow”. Good and bad things to become citizens of the state and the world can not be chosen with a coin or whatever. but at least after watching this program, may we bring home an important lesson about the truth of life. courage to look up and face power fit’s arbitrarily. with any weapons: camera, music or poetry the seeds beneath the snow, grow well.

In Spectrum of programs, as what we have in the previous years we screen movies with diversity for approaches, as well as themes. This program is a gallery of new world documentaries, with various treatments and a different style of storytelling. Poetic documentary, Hybrid, Non-Verbal, Non Narrative and others.

The Age of Stupid will take us to a trip to the year of 2055, pulling together old archives about how human the earth is. This documentary uses a very fictional approach, a futuristic fiction. Then we will meet with the poetic journey of Daniel, through the past and present of the Balkans in Balkan Rhapsodies. Talk poetically, prepare tissues to meet an Indian family, father, good mother and a great young disabled man in a one ordinary morning newspaper, shave the hair and the afternoon walk. There is also a group of young people about a city: Jakarta, with its ordinary people, each in different treatment.

What should not be overlooked is the surprises in H2Oil, the story of the oil pipes that ran across the U.S., experiments in Canada who studied social identity and behavior of people who grew up in Canada a versa (The Experimental Eskimos), as well as beauty shoot on The Image Mill Revealed and wonderful d singing animal in the Anima Mundi, then the story of an orangutan’s sad journey in the Green. There is also to AlOS with a bicycle at The Bicydie: Fighting AIDS with Community Medicine.

This program, once again is a gallery, the beautiful landscape, source for the painter of documentary. And audience, please prepare clear glasses to see the colors, provide tissue, and do not forget to clap hands.

Kuntz Agus