CURATOR’S NOTE
by Ahmad Fauzi, 20 March 2023
Archives Exhibition Lupa Lupa Ingat 2023 Team:
Siska Olie, Rayhan Dharmawan, Saffira Nusa Dewi, Fransiska Prihadi, Made Birus, Edo Wulia, Stanis Hollyfield, Sellyna Juliantari.
Last February 2023, my Minikino colleague, Holly, opened one of the boxes in our storage to see what was inside. He pulled out a red poster and showed it to everyone at the office. “I found an old poster from Konfiden 2004”. I immediately answer, “wow, it would be cool if we make an exhibition to commemorate National Film Month.” It was an impulsive idea filled with enthusiasm. Alas it was said out loud and the whole office agreed it was a brilliant idea, ready to support me.
Since that day, I have been rummaging through piles of files, magazines, newspapers, VHS, and other prints that have been stored. In the initial process of selecting archives, my colleague Siska Olie and I tried to catalog Minikino’s archives by year. I got many old archive files from the early 2000s from the box marked Tintin Wulia, co-founders of Minikino. Then another pile of box files from Edo Wulia with documents as old as Tintin’s files.
In the middle of the filing process, an unexpected coincidence occurred. Lisabona Rahman brought Dr. Samsi (1952) which was recently digitized by her study group, Kelas Liarsip. Minikino Studio was also involved in providing Bahasa Indonesia transcripts and English subtitles for the digitization project.
I admire Lisa’s work in the field of archiving and developing feminist discourse in the Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan. I was ecstatic. This gives me the opportunity to chat about archives and do a few interviews about archiving work with her (the text of my interview with Lisa can be accessed at https://minikino.org/articles/ Interview-bersama-lisabona-rahman/).
From my interview with Lisa about archives, she mentioned archive exhibitions at film festivals such as Minikino’s works to open dialogue. Let Minikino’s long journey of 21 years be interpreted openly by the public. As for the rest, we’ll see the public’s response. This is also why I don’t plan to make the exhibition something grandiose. The most important is that there are small steps to open a dialogue and build a discourse on archiving.
When I started looking into these archives, I had only been connected to Minikino for two years. I was quite amazed by how Minikino stored its archives properly.
The archives that are now displayed in the Archive Exhibition: Lupa Lupa Ingat are merely some of the many physical archives that my friends and I have selected. Due to time constraints, I believe more work needs to be done, and perhaps several exhibitions to follow.
Lastly, as an eager young curator, I would like to say happy Indonesian Film Month. There are many exciting things looking at Minikino’s long history as a short film festival, which is also part of the history of the post-Reformation national film industry. Also, as one of the oldest short film organizations that is still active and consistent in Indonesia.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25 – SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2023
di MASH Denpasar
Maps: minikino.org/MASHDenpasar
DAILY VISIT
MARCH 27 – APRIL 9 2023 | 13:00 – 19:30 WITA
OFF EVERY MONDAY
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ARCHIVES EXHIBITION EVENTS at MASH DENPASAR
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
17:30 — 20:30 WITA
OPENING & HANGING OUT WITH THE CURATORS
The Lupa Lupa Ingat Archive Exhibition will be opened with a hangout session with the curators.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
19:30 — 20:30 WITA
DISCUSSION – FILM FESTIVAL ARCHIVING PRACTICE
SPEAKERS:
SANCHAI CHOTIROSSERANEE (THAI FILM ARCHIVE)
LULU RATNA (BOEMBOE FORUM)
MODERATOR:
AHMAD FAUZI (MINIKINO)
How should a film festival treat its archives? Join the discussion on film festival archives with Lulu Ratna (Boemboe Forum) and Sanchai Chotirosseranee (Thai Film Archive).
Presentation in English with the recording accessible on Minikinoevents’ YouTube in May 2023
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
19:30 WITA
PUBLIC PRESENTATION BY KATYA VOGEL – GHOST HUNTING IN THE CITY
For three weeks, Katya Vogel accessed data on Indonesian short films related to her research focus as part of the Short Artist Residency Minikino at MASH Denpasar.
Presentation in English with the recording accessible on Minikinoevents’ YouTube in May 2023.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2023
19:30 WITA
SCREENING OF SHORT FILM PROGRAM “MY LIFE MY DREAMS” (2013) & COSTUME PARTY
Wear your 2000s-style fashion and catch the screening of the films made by the participants of My Life My Dreams Jönköping-Denpasar 2013, a collaboration between Jönköping Kultur Kommun, and Minikino.
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2023
19:30 WITA
SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM PROGRAM “KICKSTART!: MENCARI BALI” (2006) & HANGING OUT WITH CURATORS
After 15 years, a collection of short documentary films by the program ‘Mencari Bali’ is back to be screened. Looking for Bali is a documentary-making training grant program for beginner filmmakers initiated by In-Docs in collaboration with Minikino.
SPEAKERS SHORT BIO
LULU RATNA was born in Jakarta. Graduated from Anthropology, University of Indonesia in 1997 and the Study of Urban Art and the Cultural Industry Postgraduate School, Jakarta Art Institute (2020). She has worked in several film festivals, such as the 1999 Jakarta International Film Festival, the Indonesian Independent Film-Video Festival (2000-2002), the Indonesian Film Festival/FFI (2004, 2011, 2014), Europe on Screen (2007-2011) and the Film Festival Southeast Asia Documentary “ChopShots” (2012 & 2014). Served as a jury at several national and international film festivals, including the 2003 Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the 2005 Amnesty International-DOEN Award Rotterdam Film Festival, the 2007 Tampere Film Festival, the 2011 Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival short film category, the XXI Short Film Festival 2013 in the documentary category, Freedom Film Festival 2015, FFI short film category (2005, 2006, 2015, 2016) and as an independent jury at FFI 2017. She has made several short documentaries. Since 2003 she has been active in the Boemboe Organization which focuses on the promotion/distribution of Indonesian short films and has become the curator of the 2017-2020 FFI Short Film Nominees. Since 2012 she has also been active in giving film festival workshops with COFFIE (Coordination for Film Festival in Indonesia). Had served as Secretary of the Film Committee, Jakarta Arts Council for the 2015-2018 period and since 2016 has been a lecturer at the Multimedia Nusantara University Film Study Program, Serpong. Since 2021 she has been one of the Program Advisors for IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam).
Moderator: AHMAD FAUZI (Minikino)
SHORT BIO
Back in 2013, the MY LIFE MY DREAMS project began with plans and long discussions between the Ministry of Public Culture in Jönköping, Sweden, and the Minikino team in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. The aim is to create cooperation and understanding between youth in Jönköping, Sweden, and Bali, Indonesia, through the process of making films.
This film program will be shown again as a record that shows that this project was once a hope for Minikino as a film festival, to provide education and practical experience in filmmaking and stories for young people.
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Program duration: 36:52
with English subtitles
FILM LIST
**THE GUEST WORKER DAN THE ACTRESS FILMS ARE NOT PLAYED IN THE ARCHIVE EXHIBITION**
THE GUEST WORKER Erik Gansjö and Max Timje / English / 03:38 // A personal portrait of a guestworker in Jönköping, Sweden.
THE ACTRESS William Merkell & Karolina Thollander / Swedish / 04:16 // A short documentary about Allis, a girl with a dream to become an actress.
I MADE IN TRAFFIC JAM I Wayan Suhendra / Indonesia / 04:41 // Made and Wayan should immediately meet the boss, but they stuck in traffic jam of Denpasar.
POCONG & SUSTER NGESOT Komang Restu Sedana / Indonesia / 10:38 // When Suster Ngesot finds a way to overcome her physical disability, he must compete with Pocong who also has the same desire.
ENDLESS HATE Sigit Widyantoro / Indonesia / 07:34 // Gita’s room is always messy and there were some uninvited guests who come to disturb the whole family, furthermore even worst than that.
THE DREAMER Kadek Budi Setiawan / Indonesia / 06:05 // Dony’s dream of becoming SUPERHERO, unfortunately at the wrong place and time.
BESOK SYUTING, HARI INI KAKEK MENINGGAL Maria Rosiana Sedjahtera / Indonesia / 07:54 // Tomorrow, Ana will be filming a movie, suddenly came a news that Ana’s grandfather passed away and she must leave with her family to Purwokerto to attend the funeral.
KICKSTART! 2006: MENCARI BALI
Pemutaran program Mencari Bali yang dibuat 15 tahun yang lalu dalam program produksi film dokumenter KickStart! 2006. Program ini adalah beasiswa berupa pelatihan pembuatan dokumenter bagi kelompok peserta dari kalangan pemula pembuat film dokumenter di Bali. Hasil pelatihan adalah film dokumenter pendek berdurasi 15 menit dalam satu seri dokumenter bertema Mencari Bali. Peserta Kickstart! 2006 membuat film di bawah bimbingan pembuat film dokumenter profesional, difasilitasi dengan bahan baku, kamera, komputer editing, operating editing, dan dana produksi untuk riset dan shooting. Setelah 15 tahun Mencari Bali, sudah sampai mana?
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Program duration: 56:53
Dengan subtitle Bahasa Inggris
DAFTAR FILM
KOLOK Bayu Sakti Wijaya, Dewa Made Merta Suardana, I.B. Putu Suwenda / Indonesia / 2006 / 14:36 // What is the life of the kolok (deaf-mute) community in Bengkala village, Buleleng, Bali? How do they “talk” to one another? Sudarma – one of the kolok, does not feel that he is any different from other people with normal hearing. He is able to support his family even with minimal means. Apart from helping his parents in his daily life, Sudarma also likes tajen (cockfighting). Uniquely, he became a member of the janger Kolok dance group in Bengkala.
NANGIANG BARONG Ananta Wijaya, Dwitra Juli Ariana / Indonesia / 2006 / 15:11 // The story of the Kiadan village community in overcoming the various disasters that befell them. On a daily basis (practically) the problem could not be solved, so they resolve to a niskala (spiritual-cultural) effort, namely nunas bawos ngatur desa (asking a shaman to the four corners of the compass). As a result, they have to do the nangiang barong (revive the tapakan barong). Will they succeed?
AKU BUKAN MALING Susi Andrini, Made Suarbawa / Indonesia / 2006 / 14:26// Na’lim, a young man from the village of Pegayaman, Bali, is often suspected of being a thief, robber, or murderer. This stereotyped view brings economic and social difficulties for the people of Pegayaman in general. They are ostracized, having difficulty finding jobs, friends or spouses from outside Pegayaman. “Instead of marrying Pegayaman people, it is better to marry a goat”, as someone said. But Na’lim did not just give up on the situation. He works to achieve goals, and love. For him “life must be better than now”.
MENGEJAR FATAMORGANA Muji Ananta, Erwin Agus Handaka / Indonesia / 2006 / 12:40 // Asri, like most other Balinese girls who “must” learn Balinese dance, wants to enter the glittering modeling world. Asri’s father fully supports this ideal. Asri finally won trophy after trophy from her work as a model, through great sacrifices in terms of time and funds. However, unexpectedly, it was Asri’s prowess in traditional Balinese dancing that brought her to international fame. Thus, paved the way for access to prestigious schools in Denpasar.
