Director: Henry Foundation, colour, 84 min., 2016
We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, October 31, 2017. This time we will screen the film called
White Shoes & The Couples Company in Cikini directed by
Henry Foundation.
13 years after
White Shoes & The Couples Company emerged as a band from the campus grounds of the Jakarta Art Institute, they return for a historic performance on the stage of Graha Bhakti Budhaya’s concert hall. Henry Foundation captures their onstage charisma like no other and presents backstage moments filled with intimate stories of the band’s early days and their beloved birthplace Cikini.
Henry Foundation
Henry Foundation, also often referred to as Betmen, is a visual artist as well as the vocalist of
Goodnight Electric. His previous works include music videos under the name of
The Jadugar with Anggun Priambodo.
The Jadugar works won several awards, including Best Director at the MTV Music Awards 2003 for
The Train Song (LAIN Band), as well as Favorite Creation at the Hello Festival in 2004 for
Alibaba (Boys Are Toys).
White Shoes & The Couples Company in Cikini is his first full-length documentary.
ARTHOUSE CINEMA
Arthouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream!
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