Undercurrent

The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challengers

I Gde SUARDIATMIKA, Yuki ADITYA Indonesia 92 mins PG13 (Some Violence) Singapore Premiere

Undercurrent – Double Bill

This film will be screened together with Nazarbazi

FILM SYNOPSIS

An essayistic film exploring the legacies of cinema in New Order Indonesia and what it means to be inheritors of its filmic language.

Suharto’s self-proclaimed New Order government (1966–98) was characterised by intense political suppression and censorship. As a result, cinema became a vehicle for state ideologies. This film foregrounds the recurrence of prosaic shots of everyday life and patterns of narration in films of that era to draw new interpretations and meanings, thus providing an alternative reading of the New Order regime.

Splicing together lo-fi film footage culled online, the film recontextualises scenes and overturns the political subtexts of the regime as resistance against authoritarianism. As the filmmakers say, “Interpreting is an act of citizen participation.”

FILM INFO

FILM CREDITS

I Gde SUARDIATMIKA

I Gde SUARDIATMIKA is a member of media collective Forum Lenteng and its film group, Milisifilem Collective. He is currently a student at the Jakarta Arts Institute majoring in cinema studies.

Yuki ADITYA

Yuki ADITYA is a film producer for Forum Lenteng and festival director of ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival.

CONTACT

Forum Lenteng

yukiaditya.yuki@gmail.com

Screening Details

  • Date/Time

  • Venue

    Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2

  • Runtime

    111 mins

  • Q&A with filmmaker(s)

UNAVAILABLE

Key points to note

The total programme rating for DOUBLE BILL- Nazarbazi + The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challengers, is TBA.

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