In “The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challenges” Indonesian cinema is revisited by the Milisfilem Collective’s Yuki Aditya and I Gde Mika in search for the political commentary on the country. The filmmakers have tightly scrutinised the contents of films made in Indonesia during general Suharto’s New Order regime. The outcome of that investigation is a hectic 90-minutes long film essay which interrogates the contemporary history of the country. Clips from various productions are then repurposed in a fragmentary fashion and commented upon by the filmmakers in the voice-over, thus creating the eponymous myriad.
The Abandoned is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Another recent Indonesian film, “Tropic Fever”, also used archive footage. In the case of “Tropic Fever”, the point was to reclaim the country’s colonial history through the footage originally shot by the Dutch rulers. Although the directors set out with a subversive idea in their mind,...
The Abandoned is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Another recent Indonesian film, “Tropic Fever”, also used archive footage. In the case of “Tropic Fever”, the point was to reclaim the country’s colonial history through the footage originally shot by the Dutch rulers. Although the directors set out with a subversive idea in their mind,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Olek Młyński
- AsianMoviePulse
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