YouTube Live with Kamila Andini x Aryo Danusiri x Sazkia Noor Anggraini
The Goethe-Instituts Indonesien, Thailand and Malaysia are jointly presenting the online film festival
Darling, Berlin! Berlin Sayang! Berlin, Teerak! 6–27 December 2020. This year’s program screens six independent films from the German capital available to film fans for viewing in the three countries. This year we also celebrated the 30th anniversary of the reunification of formerly divided Germany 3 October 1990, a process that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 thanks to the peaceful revolution.
Since then, Germany’s capital city Berlin has become the center of various efforts to unite the inhabitants of the former West and East politically, economically and culturally. In the mid-1990s a group of Berlin auteur films was born out of this particular situation and zeitgeist. The most famous representatives of the Berlin School, including Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec and Christian Petzold, all studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb).
The Berlin School was never a collective or an organization in concrete form with a common manifesto. Nevertheless, these filmmakers tried to present new German films based on the realities of life after the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.
Three experts from the world of Indonesian cinema with different backgrounds were invited to this issue of BINGKIS to discuss the connection between the 30th anniversaries of the reunification of Germany, the film festival
Darling, Berlin! Berlin, Sayang! Berlin, Teerak!, and the discourse of the Berlin School. They will share their experience and thoughts about human relationships in film. How can a feature or documentary film lead us to a part of a person’s life without having to present a multitude of conflicts with solutions? What is continuously produced and reproduced in our media today that causes some films to be evaluated as “heavy films”, “artistic films” or “obscure films”? The film experts will also talk about the personal experiences they collected when visiting Berlin, the city at the heart of German cinema.
Aryo Danusiri is a documentary film director with an anthropological background who is involved in research in the fields of visual anthropology, media and technology as well as sensory ethnography. David Hanan (2002) calls Aryo one of the Indonesian pioneers in the field of observational documentary film. His rigorous attention to the works produced under the direction of the filmmakers of the Berlin School is based on the commonality of their main principle in the choice of artistic research, namely observational methodology.
Kamila Andini is a film director and screenwriter from Jakarta. She has a special interest in socio-cultural issues, gender equality and ecology. As a result, her works always have her own unmistakable handwriting. To date she has released four short films and two feature films, which have been screened at numerous national and international festivals and have garnered a number of awards. She is also a mother who is determined to continue exploring other forms of artistic expression. Over the last two years, for example, she wrote her first play, which has the same roots and title as her second feature film entitled The Seen and Unseen.
Sazkia Noor Anggraini is a researcher, programmer and film lecturer at ISI Yogyakarta. In addition to her primary task as a lecturer, she is often involved in collaborations for documentaries, film archives, screening groups, and film review writing. She was one of the curators for the Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival (FFD) 2017-2018.
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