In 2000, Garin Nugroho gave birth to A Poet: Unconcealed Poetry, the first film to revisit the 1965 massacres perpetrated by the Suharto regime—a bloodbath the Indonesian dictator touted as “anti-communist purges,” and which claimed between 500,000 and 2,000,000 lives. Entry point into that unspeakable horror was poet Ibrahim Kadir, an Indonesian artist whom Nugroho filmed as he performed didong ballads, the sung poetic duels known for their humor, word-play, and not-so-veiled political satire. An artist and an art-form a political elite grew increasingly suspicious of served as a vessel to dissect a whole country’s unresolved past, and on-going mourning. Nearly two decades later, Nugroho’s Memories of My Body feels like a long overdue sequel. Another meta-fictional biopic, this time zeroing in on Javanese-born, Japan-based dancer and choreographer Rianto, Nugroho’s latest offering unfurls as a portrait of an Indonesian artist as a young man, a journey of creative initiation where...
- 9/13/2018
- MUBI
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