Showing posts with label b movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label b movies. Show all posts

Friday, July 12, 2019

BADASS! BERANI! Filem2 ini akan mengguncang anda!

BADASS! BERANI!
Filem2 ini akan mengguncang anda!
Ada masanya perfilman Indonesia begitu enteng mengedarkan film-film yang, dengan standar moral saat ini, bisa menimbulkan efek samping kejang-kejang, urat tegang dan demo berseri. Masa di mana film yang menjual sensasi, aksi dan desah sebegitu marak. Sebagian malah dibuat cepat, murah dan disambut. Jadi apakah di masa itu, penonton kita lebih lepas bebas, lebih rileks menikmati sensasi dan menghibur diri lewat sederet kisah yang toh semua tahu sekadar hiburan? Bisa jadi.



Sambutan masyarakat atas gelombang film yang tak berpretensi apa-apa selain memuaskan dahaga hiburan ini membuat Indonesia punya koleksi film-film yang bisa secara kontroversi dilabeli film B (B-movies). Tapi film B, justru karena tak punya beban, seringkali lebih liar dan imajinatif. Tak heran lantas banyak yang terpikat oleh film-film jenis ini, dan mendedikasikan diri untuk merekam, mengabadikan bahkan mereka ulang gaya dan semangat film B ini.



Tapi apakah itu berarti juga di masa itu, masyarakat kita lebih bebas? Tunggu dulu. Karena kami yakin luwih penak jamanku itu klaim sepihak. Dalam sesi diskusi kita juga akan telusuri jejak dan konteks film-film B dalam sejarah Indonesia. Tentu sambil menonton dan merayakannya. 

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Jadi, sampai jumpa di kineforum Juli ini!
Info dan jadwal film ada di sini

Diskusi "Berani karena Boleh: Film B Indonesia dan pendekatan New Cinema History"

Sabtu, 20 Juli, 17.00     Donasi Sukarela

Kineforum, TIM, Jakarta.

Di era puncak Orde Baru, untuk suatu alasan, film B merajai pasaran. Untuk setiap film berbudaya/adiluhung yang dikenang hingga kini, ada lebih banyak lagi film-film sensasional yang diterima masyakarat. Apakah itu berarti juga di masa itu, masyarakat kita lebih bebas? Di era Orde Baru? Tunggu dulu. Karena kami yakin _luwih penak jamanku_ itu klaim sepihak. Dalam sesi diskusi kali ini, kita akan merayakan dan menelusuri jejak dan konteks film-film B dalam sejarah Indonesia. Dan apakah diam-diam jejak film B ini juga sesungguhnya tulang punggung narasi sejarah perfilman Indonesia? Mari berbincang!

Pengampu:
- Ekky Imanjaya, dosen prodi film Binus University
- Dennis Adishwara, founder Layaria Network dan penikmat B(adass) movies

jadwal dan info film ada di sini


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

Friday, August 8, 2014

Photos: Discussions at Kineforum on New Order's Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies, 14 & 21 June 2014

The discussions took place at Kineforum, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta.
General Topic: Rethinking New Order's Indonesian Exploitation Cinema.


First discussion:
Public Lecture : "
New Order's Exploitation Films: legitimate, illegitimate, or stepchildren of Indonesian culture?"
Saturday,  14 June  2014, 17.00
Me, introducing the films
Q&A session


second discussion:  Indonesia's Transnational FIlms and  The Global Phenomenon of “Crazy Indonesia”
with Joko Anwar.
Saturday,  21 June 2014, 19.30

Matius, Joko Anwar, and Me




Terima kasih buat Joko Anwar, Matius, Vauriz, Anies, dan semua relawan Kineforum, serta semua yang telah hadir dalam diskusi dan pemutaran film.

Photos courtesy of Anies Wildani/Kineforum 


Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Trailers and Excerpts from "Crazy Indonesia" movies

Hello :)

I just started my research 3 weeks ago, and I am so excited about it!
Just to give you the pictures about the research I am doing, here's some examples of trailers and clips about the films.  Basically, the movies i want to analyse are not just Indonesian B movies or Exploitation Films. But, those with international distribution (VHS, DVD, VCD, Betamax; by MondomacabroDVD, Troma Entertainment, Brentwood Home Video, etc) and dubbed into English.  Some Western cult-fan boys label those kinds of movies as "Crazy Indonesia". Do you agree with them?



 1979       Primitives (Primitif), Sisworo Gautama

 1979      Queen of Black Magic (Ratu Ilmu Hitam) , Liliek Sudjio

 1979       Special Silencers (Serbuan Halilintar),  Arizal

 1981       Mystics in Bali    Mistik  (Punahnya Rahasia Ilmu Iblis Leak),  H. Tjut Djalil


1982       Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters (The Fighters) (Perempuan Perempuan Bergairah), Jopi Burnama and Charles Kaufman


 1982       Satan's Slave, (Pengabdi Setan), , Sisworo Gautama Putra


 1983       Jungle Virgin Force, (Perawan Rimba), Wellson Danu Umbara

1984       The Devil's Sword, (Golok Setan) , Ratno Timoer


1985       Daredevil Commandos, (Komando Sambar Nyawa),  E.G. Bakker



1987       Virgins from Hell, (Perawan Disarang Sindikat), Ackyl Anwari / Fred Wardy Pilliang

1988       Lady Terminator (Pembalasan Ratu Laut Selatan) , H. Tjut Djalil

1992       Dangerous Seductress,                 (Bercinta Dengan Maut), , H. Tjut Djalil


What do you think so far?

What do you think, so far? :)What do you think, so far? :)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Introducing: Jaka Sembung and His Nasty Alliance

Hi,
My name is Ekky Imanjaya. I am currently a postgraduate student at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. I am now starting a research on Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies from Indonesia which produced between 1979 to 1995 during the oppressive regime called Orde Baru alias New Order. And my research is limited to the films that dubbed into English and distributed globally by international distributor such as MondomacabroDVD, Troma Entertainment, Brentwood Home Video, Trash Online, etc.

If you are interested, please do read this blog and give some feedbacks. If you have any info about the topic, or you are also a devoted fans of those kinds of films, please do let me know and discus the issues here :). Thank you!

For this very first posting, I share one of the most epic fighting scenes of The Warrior a.k.a. Jaka Sembung.