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Chaotic Memories: Selected Works 2010-2013
It is the underlying personality of the director, the Indonesian Agusta, that provides the unity for this very diverse collection of experimental, poePublished on: -
The Science of Fictions
A fake moon landing, Suharto’s coup, the communist witch hunt and technological progress in a mildly absurdist, fantastical tale.Published on: -
Kasiterit
Solar-powered A.I. Natasha informs us of the complex dynamic between labour and geology on Bangka Island, Indonesia, where most tin comes from.Published on: -
Kawah Ijen (The Solitary Crater)
Working in a sulphur mine in Indonesia is really hard. Documentary.Published on: -
Birdman Tale
Nugroho is the poet of political cinema: passionate, but with a light and original tone. Here he integrates events in West Papua/Irian Jaya in a…Published on: -
Exodus
Two women and a man in a cinematographic dance. Subtle emotions and hidden desires reveal truth and fatal beauty.Published on: -
On the Origin of Fear
Deep-seated traumas of Indonesia are rooted out when a man dubs the roles of both perpetrator and victim over a docudrama on the 1965 attempted…Published on: -
A Woman from Java
Java, 1927. In a colourful colonial house, a foreign resident’s concubine receives visitors on the birthday of her old and sick Dutch companion.Published on: -
A Copy of My Mind
The experienced writer-filmmaker Joko Anwar is still young but certainly knows what you can and cannot show in an Indonesian film. He seems to be…Published on: -
Chaotic Love Poems
A cheerful yet serious Indonesian Romeo and Juliet. A boy and a girl from the same district, but with difficult childhoods and other reasons not…Published on: