WHO’S THE MACHINE – Rizkyansyah Ramadhan
Capitalism arises from artificial axioms, as Nietzsche suggested, where truth is something yet unseen. Every movement in this world is intricately arranged within the embrace of a system, a social force known as capitalism. In the flow of blood moving from the heart throughout the entire body and back, the current of capitalism has unwittingly penetrated. We move with a singular goal, money. Money itself is a capitalist-made system deemed correct, with evidence in everyone’s need for it. The role of money is an attempt to imprison desires to maintain the integrity of the capitalist order. Production continues relentlessly to maximize profits; everything is reterritorialized without regard for circulating social codes. Similarly, in the capitalist perspective, humans are viewed as machines, both consumption and production machines. Activated every day at 7 AM and deactivated after 8 hours of operation, at this point, humans transform into machines romanticized by the term “working.” We are production machines continually generating capitalist products unknowingly, undergoing education to become capitalist machines, and ultimately meeting our end in the hands of capitalism.
BONEKA BAYANGAN – Sabrina Maharani
I wonder if all children’s worlds are always fun and colorful? But what if the world of my childhood was gray? Aren’t parents supposed to be a home for their children? But there’s so many times a problem starts from home. Isn’t who we are today the result of who we were in our childhood? When the presence of parents is only a living shadow and the child is just there as a living doll.
DELINQUENCY(?) – Sultan Rizky
Bullying in school environments has become a continuous “tradition” that occurs in every generation. Child protection laws seem to favor the perpetrators rather than the victims. Perpetrators often appear shielded behind the phrase “Juvenile Delinquency”. Even though it has taken someone’s life, is that still considered juvenile delinquency?.
REFLECTIONS OF MATERNITY – Syifa Chusnul
How can one’s life come to an end after having a child? In this experimental film, we will delve into a world adorned with threads, needles, and mundane garments, creating profound symbolism of the mother-child bond. The clothes crafted by the Mother in this film represent more than mere functionality; they become a symbolic accumulation of sacrifice, dormant dreams, and a life slowly submerging in her dedication as a mother. Against the backdrop of Feminist theory, the film highlights the traditional role of women in society, showcasing how the mother, as a dressmaker, symbolically ‘shapes’ her child’s life through each stitch and garment she creates
FICTIONAL REALITY – Zidni Rizky
The dream world is projected by the images in the human brain, narrative and all its abstractions influenced by emotions and ambitions is a response of the human brain’s awake state.
AS A BOY’S ARENA – Belva Atsil
Benjang is a performing art that was created in Ujung Berung region, Bandung City. Initially, this art was an event of gratitude for the rice harvest by gathering with local residents, but as time goes by, Benjang is now better known as a celebration for children who have been circumcised. With all the changes in form that have occurred, now Benjang is starting to cause a lot of unrest among its fans and even the artists themselves, with the presence of individuals who misuse the series of attractions in Benjang to carry out even harassment against women, claiming that they are doing this because they are “unconscious” or “possessed”.
TRY TO IMAGINE – Reihan Naufal
Talking about the process and freedom of a film editor who always imagines freedom in his work because he has the freedom to determine a story.
NAWA LIFE – Reza Pahlevi
Why should animals be eaten? Does the lack of an emotional connection make humans indifferent to slaughtered animals? If an emotional bond is formed between humans and animals, will people still consume animals?
I’M CONFUSED – Rizky Ridho
This work delves into the human quest for the essence of one’s life, navigating the dilemma of social issues, empathy, sympathy, the environment, morals, beliefs, and resistance. It relates to the relevance of oneself in the ever-improving or possibly deteriorating modernity. Right or wrong is a matter of different perspectives. The concept of human causality in the world is worth questioning. But will this story conclude within this work? Like life that never ends, this piece is merely an allegory representing individuals’ grievances, especially my own. The context of freedom seems broken within empty rules.
I BROUGHT YOU TO LIFE THROUGH THE ARCHIVES – Made Virgie
Starting from the archives He left behind which became memories. Trying to record it as a child’s imagination and definition of Father to bring the meaning of Father to life without the memory of Father’s figure remaining. Apart from the archives, trying to capture the images around us and look for the meaning and relationship between the father and the child themselves. As well as trying to relate it to the cremation tradition which can be articulated differently, cremation as an end or a new beginning in life and body as a form? This form of experimental work on celluloid film was developed through the elaboration of Chronophotographieor practice which was developed into moving images from collect the photos that could be combined, through this practice it could become a form of approach to past cultural speech that articulates flat space-time on temple reliefs. As well as connect how past lost can still affect humans in the future.