Jalanan, Musical Documentary.
Clip featured below is the teaser clip for Jalanan, an upcoming musical documentary set in Jakarta, Indonesia. As described by the producer, Daniel Ziv, also author of Jakarta Inside Out, “Jalanan explores modern-day Jakarta at street level through the lives and distinctive subculture of the city’s gifted bus musicians. The film is an intimate portrayal of the buskers and their individual struggles and aspirations, and also a raw, humorous, often shocking portrait of Indonesia’s bustling capital city.”.
Savoring the Jalanan reality, if only for around 3 minutes, is coming to realize the humility of one not oppressed enough to be as great — to romanticize oppression, to stay thirsty and starve for it, to ignite and sing it aloud: to not die on a stranger’s street.
PS: If you happened to be in the city, don’t miss out on Droits De L’Homme, documentary film screenings, main program for CCF’s 9th edition of Le Mois du the Documentaire Film and 60th anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights on the 10th of December. The program features 17 documentary films and organized by CCF Jakarta in collaboration with Kineforum and Jakarta Arts Council (Dewan Kesenian Jakarta) also Indonesia’s Department of Law and Human Rights as well as Women National Commission (Komnas Perempuan).
Public screenings available every Saturday at 1 PM at CCF Salemba and CCF Wijaya from November 1st to 29th, and everyday at 2.15 pm, 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm at Kineforum TIM from November 24th to 30th. There’ll also be related discussion on the subject of Films for Human Rights with Harkristuti Harkrisnowo and Arimbi Haroepoetri on Saturday, November 29th at Kineforum.
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that looks like a fantastic documentary!! pity i miss all this stuff over here…
Remind me to send you a copy then, when it’s out.
WOW! Fantastic!
For sure!
Hmm a movie to look forward to after the success of Laskar Pelangi. Is it released yet? I’ll stop by for CFF monthly movie fest.. French, melikes!
Oohlala..
Nope, it isn’t released yet.
a more reallistic perspective of jakarta compared to sinetrons,
bus musicians or “pengamen” can be irritatingly pushy too sometimes tho.
Ah, moooot. Love it how you understand a subject w/o being such an annoying skeptic. Yes well, that’s why it says: the city’s gifted bus musicians. The epicenter is on Jakarta and how the city is through the eyes of three bus musicians, not the other way around. Of course, the characters cannot represent all street hawkers in the city, but they represent a perspective, perhaps even an inspiration.
Being pushy, yes, being the oppressor as a consequence to being oppressed in ways that society and govt lack understanding of. As stated by that other blog, the film documents aspects of poverty, thus associating it with some pretentious political ads. I cannot fully agree to that, these musicians are part of the working class whether people like it or not. They create music, perform, and earn a living from it.
Good thing though that people are beginning to realize what exploitation of poverty is all about, also of anything worth bashing in this country.
meh. wasn’t expecting such lengthy response, but yeah okay hehehe
they’re gifted indeed, under such circumstance they keep on producing while everyone surrounds them busy thinking of what to consume next, that alone makes them richer than they realize
true, oppression procreates oppressors eventually.. it’s a chainlink reaction
is there any chance to get a copy of the documentary?
You’re in Jakarta, right, tree?
Quite sure it’ll be available at Aksara soon after its release.