screening programs / pemutaran

archival film programs for festivals, galleries or online platforms

Lisabona Rahman was part of the selection committee in the section independently curated and organised by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of the Berlinale film festival. Forum stands for “reflections on the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and a particular sense for the aesthetic”, aiming “to expand the understanding of what film is, to test the boundaries of convention and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways. The programmes can include anything that serves these ends: contemporary and historical, analogue and digital film, installation art, performance and music.”

Since its first edition in 1971, this section is also very well known for its “Forumsblätter” (“Forum Film Sheets”), a publication with deeper information about the selected films in the forms of critical text or filmmaker interview. The tradition is translated into online publishing to accompany films shown in 2024 (see Barbara Wurm and Lisabona Rahman’s interview with Macu Machín on her debut work “La Hojarasca”).

Read more about the 54th Berlinale Forum Director and Selection Committee.

Read more about the selected films for Forum and Forum Special.

FILM PINGGIRAN: THE SHORT FILMS OF GOTOT PRAKOSA

Filmmaker and painter Gotot Prakosa (1955–2015) was a pioneer of experimental films in Indonesia. Countering the tradition of realistic and propagandistic short films that was the mainstream in the 1970s in Indonesia, he started making non-narrative artistic short films using 16mm film stock. Prakosa’s signature style is animated films, combining moving image and music without dialog.

[Program created for 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2022. Download program book here.]

Photo illustration above by Lisabona Rahman (2022)

Kolektif Asia - cinema that connects

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Kolektif Asia is a platform of mutual learning through film screenings and talk series with the audience in three countries (Indonesia, Japan and Thailand). This platform is realised through the use of internet-based virtual cinema and discussion space. To foster a more inclusive dialog, the films will be subtitled in local languages and accompanied by in-depth talk series with interpreters.

Kolektif Asia adalah platform saling belajar melalui pemutaran dan diskusi film dengan penonton di tiga negara (Indonesia, Jepang dan Thailand). Platform ini dikelola dengan menggunakan sinema virtual dan ruang diskusi berbasis daring. Untuk mengadakan dialog yang lebih inklusif, film yang diputar akan diberi subtitel bahasa lokal dan forum diskusi akan difasilitasi oleh penerjemah.

Kolektif Asiaは、映画上映とトークイベントを通して、インドネシア、日本、タイの３カ国の観客が互いに理解を深め合うプラットフォームで、バーチャルシネマでの上映とオンラインでのディスカッションを開催いたします。上映は各国の言語の字幕をつけて上映いたします。また、上映後に掘り下げていくトークイベントの際にも、各国語への通訳を行います。

Kolektif Asia เป็นโปรแกรมการเรียนรู้ร่วมกันผ่านการจัดฉายภาพยนตร์และการพูดคุยกับผู้ชมในสามประเทศ (อินโดนีเซีย, ญี่ปุ่น และ ไทย) ด้วยระบบออนไลน์ นั้น ภาพยนตร์ที่จัดฉายในโปรแกรมนี้จะมีการทำคำบรรยายภาษาท้องถิ่น และการพูดคุยจะมีล่ามภาษาท้องถิ่นประกอ

FILM IS HER NOTEBOOK

In 2018, Indonesian film programmer/archivist Lisabona Rahman spent time at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in a residency program. Her focus of interest at the time was women filmmakers’ work on film. It was during this search that she met with filmmaker Ute Aurand.

Ute Aurand has been working as a filmmaker since her student times in Berlin from 1979 and as a film programmer since 1990. Her works features people and landscape around her, wherever she goes. The films that she made use colors and compositions like paintings, move like films, keep personal records like diaries and are created in an economy that is very distinctly a practice of celluioid filmmaking.

Besides making films, Ute Aurand also curates film program, showcasing the works of women filmmakers from all around the world to the cinephile public in Germany. Her programming work shows the diverse ways that film has been used by many women as a sort of notebook to record personal surroundings which is later presented in form of a film. The film as a medium has a dimension of physicality, just like a notebook or a diary would, which contains records of the filmmakers’ live and her emotions. Yet differently from a diary (or home movies), these films are made to be shared with the public therefore creating an interesting mix between personal documentation and artistic expression.

In Jakarta, Ute Aurand will show her films as well as teach a 16mm filmmaking workshop. As part of the program, Lisabona will present four films which resulted from her Living Archive residency program.

This program was jointly presented in November 2019 by Lisabona Rahman and Ute Aurand, with support of the Goethe-Institut (Jakarta & Bangkok), the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin) and Lab Labalaba (Jakarta).

Download program note here.

Download program note here.