Friday, November 28, 2014

The Cover of the forthcoming Plaridel Journal: on Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B-Movies

images: Lady Terminator and Jaka Sembung
The Cover of the forthcoming Plaridel Journal (Volume 11
Issue No. 2, 2014), special issue on The Significant of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies

Link:  http://www.plarideljournal.org/author/ekky-imanjaya . 

Sssst, I am the guest editor \m/ .

Coming soon: December 2014 

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Film-Film yang Disensor karena adegan Seks dan Sadisme, 1972

Jika kita membahas soal film-film yang disensor awal 1970an, biasanya judul yang dibahas yang itu-itu saja: Bernafas Dalam Lumpur dan Bumi Makin Panas. Berikut adalah judul-judul film  lain yang disensor berkaitan dengan adegan seks dan kekerasan:

Sumber: Nasib Film “Lorong Hitam” Di Jogja” Sinar Harapan, 22 Mei 1972.
Hanja untuk 21 tahun ke atas.  Hampir dinyatakan film porno oleh Tim Pengawas Film Daerah Istimewa Jogjakarta.
Mungkin akan membawa pengaruh yang cukup besar bagi para mahasiswa dan pelajar yang menyaksikannya.

Akhirnya diloloskan untuk 21 tahun keatas, setelah ditonton ulang 3kali.


sumber: Inilah Beberapa Adegan Jang Digunting Sensor, Kompas 8 June 1972:
Sebagian tentang sex scenes dan kekerasan, misalnya dalam film Samiun dan Dasima (adegan ranjang Hamid Arief dan Connie Sutedja hingga BH Connie terbuka), Penunggang Kuda dari Tjimande (mata Harun tertusuk golok dan terlepas dari lubangnya), Impas (telinga Ray ISkandar dipotong), Tjisadane (usus berarakan) , Bengawan Solo (WD Mochtar telanjang bulat) , Insan Kesepian (Renny Fox telanjang bulat dalam pelukan Bambang Irawan).


Monday, November 24, 2014

Sneak Peek: Table of Content & Abstracts of Plaridel special issue: "The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies"

The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies

Plaridel  Journal, Special Issue, Vol 11, Issue No. 2, 2014.

Guest Editor: 
Ekky Imanjaya 
(PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia, UK; 
faculty member, school of Film, Binus International, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)

Coming soon: December 18, 2014

Table of Content and Abstracts:


1.     The Significance of Indonesian Exploitation and Cult Cinema: An Introduction to Special Issue

By Ekky Imanjaya (guest editor; University of East Anglia and Binus Nusantara University)


2.     Exploiting Indonesia: From Primitives to Outraged Fugitives
By Thomas Barker (University of Nottingham Malaysia)

3.     The Raiding Dutchmen: The Dutch Stereotypes in Indonesian Action Movies
By Eric Sasono  (RumahFilm.org)

4.       The Earth is Getting Hotter: Urban Inferno and Outsider Women’s Collectives in Bumi Makin Panas
By Dag Yngvesson (University of Minnesota)

5.        Challenging New Order’s Gender Ideology in Benyamin Sueb’s Betty Bencong Slebor: A Queer Reading
By Maimunah Munir (University of Airlangga)

6.       Genre versus Local Specificity: Configuring Rangda and Durga in Balinese and Bengali Films
By Makbul Mubarak  (Universitas Multimedia Nusantara)


7.       Beneath Still Waters: Brian Yuzna and the Transnational Indonesian Terror Text
By Xavier Mendik  (University of Brighton, Director of Cine-Excess Film Festival)


Documents
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST:
1.      American and Chinese influences on early Indonesian Action cinema

The List of Filmography of Early Indonesian Action Movies (1926-1941)
compiled by by Bastian Meiresonne

2.    On Lady Terminator
Interview with Barbara Anne Constable
By Andrew Leavold

3.     Beneath Still Waters: The Brian Yuzna Interview
By Xavier Mendik
4.     Scripting an Indonesian Monster: The John Penney Interview

By Xavier Mendik

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

YES! SCMS! See You in Montreal!

I just received a great news.

About 2 months ago, some colleagues asked me to join their panel titled "Global Exploitation Cinemas: Travel, Translation, Taste" for SCMS 2015. And the panel got accepted!

I am going to discuss about Prokjatab Prosar (Kelompok Kerja Tetap Promosi dan Pemasaran Film Indonesia di Luar Negeri ,   Permanent Working Group of Indonesian Film Promotion and Marketing Abroad), an official body that started the phenomenon of Indonesian transnational exploitation cinema a.k.a. Crazy Indonesia.
   
See you in Montreal , 25-29 March 2015 !

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Next Week: Cine-Excess Film Festival and Conference, Brighton

Next Saturday, I will be  at Cine-Excess to present a paper on Layar Tancap (Mobile Cinema shows), rural spectatorship, and classic Indonesian exploitation cinema. I will have my presentation on Saturday, 15 November, 11.30am-1pm in Panel 6 "Weird World Wastelands" (M2 boardroom).

The full schedule can be downloaded here