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Nongkrong Bareng #3: Garin Nugroho

Kali ini NB merayakan terbitnya buku "Memoar Garin Nugoro: Era Emas Film Indonesia 1998-2019" yang akan beredar akhir Juli nanti. Buku ini seperti mesin waktu yang mengajak kita kembali ke era-era sebelumnya, secara personal.
Nongkrong bareng kali ini berfokus pada sosok Garin Nugroho sebagai penulis, kritikus film, dan juga dosen film dan asisten dosen. Mulai dari liputan pertamanya ke Berlinale Film Festival (1988), juga sebagai dosen pengampu mata kuliah "Film dan Masyarakat" yang fasih membahas sosiologi film, dan sebagai asisten dosen Sumardjono dan Parakitri.

Mas Garin pun bercerita bagaimana dia memberontak melawan sistem rezim Orde Baru, seperti sistem magang, sejak film panjang pertamanya, "Cinta dalam Sepotong Roti" (1991), dan juga mengirimkan film-filmnya ke festival film luar negeri tanpa seizin Departemen Penerangan. Dia juga membahas konsekuensinya: berhadapan dengan "mafia media" yang dikontrol Deppen, mendapat surat teguran dari KFT berkali-kali, hingga disidang, serta perseteruannya dengan Teguh Karya.
Simak pula kedekatannya dengan sosok seperti Nyak Abbas Akub dan Djaduk Djajakusuma, nongkrong bareng Jafar Panahi dan Sydney Pollack, serta pergaulannya dengan kritikus dunia seperti Tadao Sato, Tony Rayns (Sight and Sound) dan Philip Cheah.
Tak lupa pula: bagaimana menghadapi kritik pedas dengan mengolah energi kemarahan menjadi hal yang reflektif dan energi penciptaan.
"Setiap film punya perannya masing-masing"
"Setiap film itu punya tanahnya sendiri".
Video editing: Asmayani Kusrini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdIpXfzUoh8

" Lisa", an Anomalous Pre-State Ibuism Film, my second virtual conference in COVID19 era

“Women in Indonesian Film and Cinema" : an international virtual conference

Currently, there is a great international virtual conference titled “Women in Indonesian Film and Cinema” happening now. It is still open for video presentation, until the end of the month, just in case any of you have an idea related to topic and want to submit your video presentation (20 minutes duration).

There are several interesting panels, including plenary panel, women’s representation under Patriarchy, Career, Students and Young Filmmakers, History, Documentaries and Webseries, Adaptation, and Works by Female Filmmakers.

Alternatively, you can participate by watching the videos presentation and start the discussion by leaving your questions/comments. Don’t forget to register.
BTW, I also submitted my video presentation at History panel. I am analysing “Lisa”, a 1971 progressive films considered by some film critics as “the first Indonesian horror film”.
Please read the abstract, watch the video, and leave comments/questions.

video presentation: https://kafein.or.id/en/history-panel/

Abstract
Lisa, an Anomalous Pre-State Ibuism Film
Film Critics, Film Scholar, the Film Department, Universitas Bina Nusantara

Mainstream perspectives regarding gender issues, both in popular and scholarly works, underline that generally films in Indonesian New Order (1966-1998) apply State Ibusim theories. On and off-screen, women were marginalized and represented as weak, silent, negative, housewificationed, dan domestificationed. State Ibuism theory was coined by Julia Suryakusuma, formulated based from PKK program (Pembinaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga (Family Welfare Movement), “azas kekeluargaan” (Family Principle), amd and Dharma Wanita (official organization for the wives of civil servants), which were officially issued in 1978. The theory highlight the official attempt of domistification of Indonesian women during New Order era.

However, Lisa (M Syariefuddin A, 1971), produced 7 years before the programs, is an anomalous one. I argue that the film can be read as the window opportunity for producing the progressive film culture. I will answer how different the film with State Ibuism theory by undertaking textual analysis or a close reading of the film. And I will answer why it is different by undertaking New Cinema History approach and highlighting the paradoxes of New Order’s policies.

Nongkrong Bareng #1: Asmayani Kusrini

NB: “Liputan Festival Film”

Nongkrong bareng Asmayani Kusrini aka Rini (Brussel), redaktur RumahFilm (2007-2012) yang paling aktif meliput festival film, khususnya Cannes, Rotterdam, dan Venice. Rini juga punya akses meliput sineas kelas dunia seperti Werner Herzog, Marjane Satrapi, dan Bahman Ghobadi. Dan, turut menjadi saksi saat restorasi "Lewat Djam Malam" diputar di Cannes Classic 20212.

Simak obrolan dengan Rini seputar festival film di era COVID19 (khususnya We are One), pergumulannya saat mewawancarai Bela Tarr, difoto Jafar Panahi, dan liputan saat hamil besar di Cannes Film Festival. Juga pengalamannya memotret para artis Hollywood seperti Tarantino dan Angelina Jolie, dan mengabadikan sineas Indonesia di Rotterdam, termasuk saat Ekky minta tanda tangan Sokurov.
Sebagian foto yang ditampilkan di sini adalah eksklusif dan belum pernah dimunculkan di media manapun.

"Entertaining the Villagers: Rural Audiences, Traveling Cinema, and Exploitation Movies in Indonesia" <-- My Paper is just out!

Yay! My paper on Layar Tancap/Touring Cinema, Rural Audiences, and Exploitation films during Indonesia's New Order was just published by ournal, no. 4, "Are You Ready for the Country: Cult Cinema and Rural Excess. Edited by Joan Hawkins, Xavier Mendik, Janet Staiger and Glenn Ward. Great edition!

The title of my paper is "Entertaining the Villagers: Rural Audiences, Traveling Cinema, and Exploitation Movies in Indonesia". Link.

You can also download the the PDF of whole journal here: .

Thanks to the editors and anonymous peer reviewer.

Alhamdulillah.

Thank you! Hope it is helpful, particularly to people interested in the Politics of Layar Tancap.

From the Introduction of the 4th Edition of the Journal:
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"While Middlemost concludes her analysis by considering how festivals enhance the cult status of outback horror films, is the rural exhibition practices and viewing patterns that occupy Ekky Imanjaya’s submission. Writing in the article ‘Entertaining the Villagers: Rural Audiences, Travelling Cinema, and Exploitation Movies in Indonesia’, Imanjaya provides a case-study of the travelling cinema (or layar tancap) circuit that became popular in Indonesia during the authoritarian ‘New Order’ era. Here, mobile film screenings for rural based audiences functioned as a direct challenge to the military and political orthodoxy that dominated between 1966 and 1998. The types of production that circulated in these rural contexts alternated between what Imanjaya terms as the “Legend genre” (which recycled popular myths into spectacular action/supernatural narratives) and the Kumpeni genre (that offered more historically specific renditions of the colonial conflicts suffered under Dutch rule). The adaptation of real life trauma for populist entertainment is further confirmed by the additional “Japanese Period Genre” that the author identifies as reflecting Indonesia’s period of wartime occupation, with more internationally oriented productions (combining horror and sexploitation traits) also being marketed to rural audiences through the layar tancap platform. Imanjaya does concede that wider classifications of these Indonesian pulp cinema texts as ‘cult’ did not begin to circulate until the early 2000s, when a range of film titles were marketed to international audiences on the basis of their ‘exotic’ mysticism, generic hybridity and balletic scenes of violence. However, despite differences in content and classification, the author offers a convincing consideration of layar tancap as an Indonesian rendition of midnight movie phenomenon that helped popularise cult material in other global regions. Indeed, the grindhouse exhibition comparison appears confirmed by official Indonesian definitions of layar tancap as a “second class” product that was consumed outside standard cinema venues: “usually the location was an outdoor arena such as a football field.” Although there is evidence of layar tancap screening sessions being exploited by the military regime for propagandist purposes, Imanjaya concludes that these ideological processes remained negotiated and resisted by rural audiences, who favoured the subversive mixture of uncensored film titles that were consumed in a subcultural viewing environment that this form of mobile cinema afforded. As a result, layar tancap and their rural audiences reveal such Indonesian film viewing patterns as a site of cultural conflict between authoritarian state bodies and Indonesia’s resistant regional cinemagoers."

Kritik Film, Riwayatmu Kini - Webinar Reuni Rumah Film

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Reuni RumahFilm dan diskusi buku "Tilas Kritik.

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"Kritik Film, Riwayatmu Kini - Webinar Reuni Rumah Film"
Komite Film Dewan Kesenian Jakarta

Buku "Tilas Kritik: Kumpulan Tulisan Rumah Film 2007-2012" adalah sebuah upaya menanggapi kebutuhan akan kritik dan jurnalisme film yang progresif di Indonesia. Sebagai buku, ia berfungsi sebagai dokumentasi kultural baik tentang film Indonesia dan dunia pada periode itu maupun, terutama, tentang kritik dan jurnalisme film mutakhir. Para redaktur di situs Rumahfilm.org menjelajah khasanah film dunia, festival-festival lokal maupun internasional, maupun menjelajahi bentuk-bentuk serta berbagai pendekatan yang mungkin dalam mengapresiasi film. Situs tersebut telah almarhum, walau saat masih tayang cukup sering jadi rujukan para penyuka, peneliti, atau pembuat film di Indonesia. Menulis tentang film sebagai sebuah kegiatan kultural berbuah kumpulan tulisan yang masih bisa jadi bahan berdialektika tentang film saat ini. (Link e-book Tilas Kritik : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YiMAx-fjtRZo02cUhJd0ygaZvPfJlAsA)

Komite Film Dewan Kesenian Jakarta mengajak Anda untuk menghadiri "Kritik Film, Riwayatmu Kini - Webinar Reuni Rumah Film" bersama para redaktur Rumah Film :
1. Asmayani Kusrini
2. Ekky Imanjaya
3. Eric Sasono
4. Hikmat Darmawan
5. Ifan Ismail
6. Krisnadi Yuliawan

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