Reversal: Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari (i)
During a train journey across the same trajectory that was utilised for the transportation of sugar in colonial times, a young man drifts in and out of sleep. Slowly, visions from the past enter his dreams. While performers dance, he is pulled deeper down into his own subconscious, where colonial phantoms appear to him through intergenerational memories. Performance, history and trauma collide in this unique film, where shadows of the past reveal themselves through gestures of the present.
– Koen de Rooij
Also in this combined programme
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Terra Incognita: Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari (ii)
A visual reenactment of mass mobilisation during Indonesia’s regime transition, fueled by an anachronistic poem. -
Afterlives
A historical exploration connecting the performance of Jathilan with the ghosts of Dutch East Indies rulers.
Film details
- Country of production
- Indonesia
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 22'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
