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MONISME

Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, Qatar, 2023
115 min.

Repressed by state-sponsored violence, a mystic is determined to stay in his land in the foothills of Mount Merapi and keep practicing his belief of being one with the mountain. On the other side of the mountain, a volcanologist keeps insisting that the end of the world is near.

Riar Rizaldi’s debut feature centers on an atypical character — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of most active volcanoes in the world, an entity shrouded in legend and whose destructive force has been associated in local mythology with occult forces of the supernatural. Constructed as a hybrid documentary that mixes ethnographic research with speculative fiction, Monisme undertakes an exploration through the cultural and scientific lore around the volcano, a lore modelled by the beliefs and intentions of a picturesque community of locals, volcanologists, and paramilitaries, that also includes the film crew itself. From bloody scenes in the style of B horror to documentary shots of nature taken by CCTV cameras or to cheeky meta-cinematic inserts, Rizaldi’s film brings together a variety of seemingly contradictory perspectives, trying to understand the tangle of historical, social, political and fantastical notions, be them rational or irrational, that govern this place. (Oana Ghera)

Data proiecție și locație

Thursday, 28th of September | 20:30

Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77
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Riar Rizaldi

Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. He works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in cinema settings and installations. His artistic practice focuses mostly on the relationship between capital and technology, labour and nature, worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibility of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Locarno, IFFR, Viennale, BFI London, Cinéma du Réel, Vancouver, etc) as well as NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, Centre Pompidou Paris, Times Museum Guangzhou, Istanbul Biennial, Taipei Biennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, Biennale Jogja, and National Gallery of Indonesia amongst others. His short film Tellurian Drama (2020) won Silver Screen Award for Best Southeast Asian Short Film at Singapore International Film Festival 2020 and was awarded Honourable Mention at DOK Leipzig 2021.

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  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Rendra Bagus Pamungkas, Kidung Paramadita, Whani Darmawan, Puthut Juritno, Yulianto, Suparno
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Aditya Krisnawan
  • PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Arda Awigarda
  • ART DIRECTOR: Rizal Umami
  • MUSIC & SOUND DESIGNER: Wahono
  • PRODUCED BY: BM Anggana
  • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Robin Moran & Pinkan Veronique

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