Segi delapan berwarna hijau dalam logo festival tahun ini bukanlah tanpa makna. Bentuk segi delapan itu adalah sebagai penanda untuk kedelapan kalinya Festival Film Dokumenter kembali digelar. Selama sepekan, dari hari Minggu hingga Sabtu, Komunitas Dokumenter menghadirkan rangkaian film dokumenter dan program yang layak dijadikan referensi dalam ranah karya film dokumenter di Indonesia.
Mengusung tema POLITIK, Festival Film Dokumenter 2009 akan melihat persoalan politik dari perspektif yang lebih personal dan subtil. Politik tidak lagi dimaknai sekadar sebagai seni untuk memengaruhi orang lain. Dalam cakupan yang lebih luas, politik senantiasa berkaitan dengan penentuan hubungan manusia dengan sistem nilai tertentu—baik yang mencakup aspek kebijakan ekonomi, sistem sosial, maupun ranah budaya.
Menilik sejarahnya, film dokumenter lahir sebagai bentuk paling awal dari sinema. Seiring perkembangannya, film dokumenter bercabang ke berbagai arah, dengan pemahaman dasar bahwa dokumenter merupakan “pengolahan realitas secara kreatif”—baik dalam proses pendokumentasian maupun distribusinya. Di sisi lain, ingatan kolektif masyarakat Indonesia masih lekat dengan anggapan bahwa film dokumenter selalu bersifat provokatif; sering kali dipandang sebagai kisah pahit bagi bangsa. Kekuatan ingatan yang diabadikan melalui medium ini membuat gagasan bahwa dokumenter haruslah objektif menjadi tidak lagi relevan dalam konteks realitas. Faktanya, film dokumenter justru berkutat pada realitas—ranah personal dan privat—serta bagaimana ia merefleksikan kenyataan dengan penuh kebebasan.
Zaman berganti dan aturan pun berubah. Manusia terus belajar dan mengembangkan film dokumenter. Kini, film dokumenter yang tidak memiliki sikap atau pesan yang jelas justru dianggap tidak berarti. Politik pun bukan lagi hal yang tabu; propaganda telah menjadi sesuatu yang usang. Film dokumenter kini menjalin hubungan yang kompleks—penuh cinta sekaligus kebencian—dengan politik dan bahasa kekuasaan. Berbagai bentuk dokumenter, mulai dari advokasi perlawanan, mediasi, hingga literasi, kini hadir sebagai medium yang bersinggungan dengan politik dan kekuasaan tanpa rasa khawatir. Dengan demikian, apa yang Anda saksikan adalah sikap dan keberpihakan yang menentukan ketegasan serta pesan dalam menyampaikan realitas. Tahun ini, kita akan menyoroti manusia dalam kaitannya dengan ranah politik personal—bagaimana individu, sebagai unit terkecil dalam sebuah negara, berperan sebagai pencipta sekaligus pelaku kebudayaan. Kita akan melihat bagaimana manusia menjadi subjek sekaligus objek dalam sistem ekonomi, serta menjadi predator puncak dalam ekosistem saat harus mengambil keputusan krusial. Atau, dalam skenario yang lebih buruk, bagaimana manusia tidak memiliki pilihan sama sekali dan terpaksa menerima opsi yang telah ditentukan bagi mereka.
Kami ingin menggali lebih dalam mengenai sikap dan pesan yang disampaikan, serta sejauh mana pilihan politik para pembuat film dokumenter dalam menentukan keberpihakan mereka. Kami meyakini bahwa perubahan tidak lagi sekadar ditentukan oleh akumulasi keringat para pekerja—baik kerah putih maupun kerah biru—yang menetes di dinding-dinding pabrik, atau oleh manuver para aktor politik, baik dari dalam negeri maupun luar negeri. Sebab, politik adalah kedirian; Personal is the political.
Panjang umur dunia yang lebih baik, selamat berfestival!
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.
