The Graha Bhakti Budaya (or GBB as its locally known), is a care-worn, 1960s slab of a building, popular as part of Jakartas largest arts center, but outwardly unremarkable. Yet what happened inside on Monday, the Indonesian premiere of documentary The Look of Silence, has for some made it more than a theater space and transformed it into a site of huge importance for the development of Indonesias democracy. That screening on Monday night was a big, big moment, says 54-year-old Irawan Karseno. There are deep wounds in our nation since 1965 and this movie is like a healing process. As head of the Jakarta Arts Council, Karseno was instrumental in bringing the film, Joshua Oppenheimers companion piece to last years Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing, to a captivated audience of around 1,500 people. We have a problem in our culture. Its not just about 1960s for us, but how we as a country are connected to the rest of the world. According to Karseno the atmosphere on Monday was only tense with expectation rather than from any safety worries, and two screenings had be shown as twice as many people turned up as could be accommodated by the auditorium. Adi was one of those present at the premier. After watching the film and seeing the victims I felt sad, says Karseno. I then met Adi and I just cried. The Look of Silence: The film making Indonesia face its brutal history By Dean Irvine CNN edition.cnn/2014/11/13/world/asia/indonesia-the-look-of-silence/index.html
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:38:21 +0000
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