"Videotage is proud to present ‘(maybe) somewhere to go’, two screening programmes during ARKIPEL 2024 this August. A total of 14 works by 12 artists hailing from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Macau will be screened.
Organized by the Indonesian artist collective Forum Lenteng, ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival is an annual film festival that aims to provide the space for public critique and mapping the development of contemporary cinema. Now in its eleventh edition, this year’s theme is ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, which imagines the festival as a place to stimulate the audience through multiple senses, and then make connections with the filmmakers’ perspectives on seeing the world.
In 2024, Apple released Vision Pro, which seems to make us less subservient to screens by bringing the interface to our eyes, but we look more blinded when we try the headset on. In the same year, the Indonesian government began moving its civil servants from Jakarta to Nusantara, and the ongoing development of the new capital will forcibly transplant people’s familiar way of life to a remote forest. Do we really have the power to make sense of the world? And how will we make sense of the changing landscape around us?
In line with this year’s theme of ARKIPEL, Videotage’s screening programme ‘(maybe) somewhere to go’ presents works that explore how urbanization or technology changes our relationship with nature. Do people living in the concrete jungle recall the sensation of wet dirt under their feet? How do they relate to animals in this artificial environment? How do they adopt the emerging artificiality as the new normal?
Hong Kong artists Jess Lau and Yuen Nga-chi will take part in a post-screening discussion. The programme will be held in English."
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