This film is ingeniously simple, with a striking test of telephonic tenacity. It is made up of stills, a continuous series of photos of advertisements pinned up all over Jakarta. On the soundtrack, a persistent telephone conversation. A man acts as if he wants to hire a ‘housemaid’ for day and night through a dating agency. Or maybe even two. His persistent questioning exposes a painful social situation.
Also in this combined programme
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Dajang soembi: The Woman Who Is Married To a Dog
An absurdist tale, made in the style of the German expressionist horror film Caligari. -
Please Come to My Dream, I Want to Hurt You
A camera glides down along the sprouting skyscrapers of a smog-enshrouded Jakarta. -
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Crooswijk
Experimental film maker gives a guest from Jakarta a lift through Crooswijk, a northern immigrant district of Rotterdam. -
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Error Terror Public Horror
In Indonesia, the police raids exorcists. Politics confronts very ancient powers. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Indonesia
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
