Four films return to images and sounds that have survived censorship and imprisonment. Found footage imagines a possible punk ban; a family gathering is interrupted by a search for forbidden VHS tapes. Elsewhere, friends revisit the aftermath of prison, while two filmmakers look again at their footage from Papua from different perspectives. The material does more than record the past. Its meaning shifts with those who kept it, those who appear in it and those who can look at it now. (Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri)
Three minutes on the possibility of a punk ban. Found footage and eyewitness accounts recall censorship and the music it seeks to suppress. The film asks how a ban can be shown in retrospect.… >>>
A lively family gathering for full body hair removal is stormed by Islamic revolutionary guards. They are looking for VHS tapes of banned Hollywood movies.… >>>
CN: Violence
Years after their imprisonment, the director gathers close friends to look at images and fragments of a shared past. Scars, dreams, jokes and silences reveal what prison has left in their bodies and everyday lives. Some memories return clearly; others resist a complete account.
Arief and Edi revisit footage they shot in Papua. Arief comes from Java; Edi grew up in Papua. Their different memories turn landscape images into a conversation about power and military presence, realities that the images might otherwise conceal.
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