Focus: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Programme IFFR 2025
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno works with archival material, installations, performance and institutional interventions. He has been blending the boundaries between fiction, memory and history. By questioning the making of historical narratives and exploring the shadows left behind by coloniality, his work exposes narratives that have been left unseen or unheard. The programme includes the world premieres of Fever Dream and Unreleased. The focus programme marks Kusno’s return to IFFR, following the screening of his work Dear Shadow, My Old Friend in 2024.
Overview of films
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Reversal: Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari (i)
A young man drifts in and out of sleep on a train, encountering phantoms from colonial times.
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Timoteus Anggawan Kusno: Through the Pores of Time
Wounds, ghosts and experiences from the past manifest themselves in contemporary times and bodies.
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Afterlives
A historical exploration connecting the performance of Jathilan with the ghosts of Dutch East Indies rulers.
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Timoteus Anggawan Kusno: Fantasma, Lacuna, Obscura
A reflection on the relationship between the past and the present, creating space for unheard narratives.
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Others or ‘rust en orde’
Four short confessions provide us with insight in the tradition of Rampogan Siluman Macan.
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Dear Shadow, My Old Friend
In a dream, memory, time and reflections intertwine, as lingering colonial shadows reveal themselves.
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Fever Dream
An actor finds himself trapped inside a black box, unsure of what is real and what is not.
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Unreleased
Ari Dwianto’s dance during an audition carries traces left behind by authoritarian disciplining.
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Tiger Talk: Matthew Lax & Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
IFFR 2025 Artists in Focus Timoteus Anggawan Kusno and Matthew Lax discuss their respective artistic practices.
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In a Landscape
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno’s charcoal drawings delve into memory and power, inviting reflection on the past and its enduring impact.
