ARKIPEL bromocorah – 7th Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2019

JAKARTA, 18-26 AUGUST 2019

FORUM FESTIVAL 19-20 AUGUST 2019
FILM SCREENING 21-26 AUGUST 2019
KULTURSINEMA EXHIBITION 18-25 AUGUST 2019

GoetheHaus
Museum Nasional Indonesia

[…] The discourse of Modernism, which has hitherto been promoting various social and cultural institutions, including the legal institutions, restricts the word “bromocorah” into limited constructive terms: outlaw, criminal, preman (‘Indonesian gangster’), vigilante, or recidivism. Those terms are in fact inadequate to contain the vast characteristic of the decent meaning of the concept “bromocorah”. It is more sensible if we prefer to see and understand it as a changeable phenomenon rather than to determine it into narrow definitions. In every age, the bromocorahs almost always exist, even though they never appear as the central narratives, but they also never disappear entirely, and in their nadir of existence, they still constitute significant residues of a system. In their own way, they might trick the system, apparatus of power, intellectual elites, and, even, the time. Our insensitivity to absorb the bromocorah’s stratagem of survival means the beginning of the intellectual fallacy in this rigid system. […]

ARKIPEL presented by:
Forum Lenteng (@forumlenteng)

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