Lazuardi has proved himself an experienced editor in previous films, and that talent is effectively employed here. Using images from television news, he captures Indonesia as a country divided between modern, rational developments and old, exorcistical practices. Recordings of police raids sketch a picture of old medicine men as terrorists. (GjZ)
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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Andy Asks
An indictment of the terrible situation of housekeepers in Jakarta. A question of interrogation. -
Crooswijk
Experimental film maker gives a guest from Jakarta a lift through Crooswijk, a northern immigrant district of Rotterdam. -
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Film details
- Country of production
- Indonesia
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
