SHORT
FILMS SCREENING AND DISCUSSION April 2004
Minikino at Ruang
Rupa - Rabu Video Club
Siapakah Saya?
Bukan teka-teki, bukan pula kuis televisi. Diskusi pencarian
identitas ini (dihadiri oleh Élaine Frigon dan Danièle
Racine dari Quebec lewat web-chat) akan dimulai dengan pemutaran
karya video Élaine Frigon (bersama ko-penulis Danièle
Racine) dan Tintin Wulia.
September 2003 di Manchester: Tintin dan Élaine bertemu
di sebuah festival film pendek. Tintin sedang membuat karya
tentang identitas, sebuah tema yang juga menarik perhatian
Élaine. Tak lama kemudian mereka bertukar karya, dan
sepakat memulai diskusi tentang ini.
Élaine Frigon (Director) and Danièle
Racine (Writer) will be present in discussion through
online chat at the venues after screening. |
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UNCERTAINTIES, RELATIONSHIPS AND FREEDOM
(LIAISONS RELATIVES à X DEGRÉ de LIBERTÉ)
Élaine Frigon, Quebec 2000, 41 menit
Karya video ini menapak tilas jejak yang dibuat oleh karakter
utamanya, Si Wanita, dalam mencari cinta. Bermain-main dalam
bentuk seperti buku harian yang sangat intim, Si Wanita seolah-olah
bermain kejar-kejaran dengan berita-berita politik di televisi
tahun sembilanpuluhan. Terciptalah karya yang menghasilkan
situasi absurd dan payah dalam misi pencarian si karakter
utama.
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WHERE DO YOU ORIGINALLY COME FROM
Tintin Wulia, Indonesia(/UK) 2003, 1 menit
Dokumenter ultra-pendek ini mengajak kita merenungkan kesimpangsiuran
dalam penamaan identitas - apakah sebenarnya kita makhluk
etnokultural, bagian dari sebuah kelompok politis bernama
Negara, ataukah sebenarnya kita individu yang bebas?
Élaine Frigon adalah salah satu subyek dalam karya
ini.
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Ruang Rupa
Tebet, Jakarta
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Wednesday, 7 April 2004
19:00 WIB |
Contact: Indra Ameng
T +62 21 8300211 |
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CCF Jakarta
Salemba, Jakarta |
Wednesday, 7 April 2004
20 :00 WIB |
Contact: Indra Ameng
T +62 21 8300211 |
free entry - please
be on time |
'Is Politics Emotional? Can We Rationalize Identity?'
From a personal email from Élaine Frigon (video artist,
Canada):
"The first time I could vote in my adult life was during
the 1980 referendum about partition of Quebec from Canada.
I was 18, I was listening to both parties: pro-Canada and
pro-Quebec. My family was pro-Canada and my friends were pro-Quebec.
The debate was totally emotional even though politicians were
talking with rationality. After that referendum, Canada returned
to the constitution which was applied in the past, when Canada
was still in the hand of mother England. To make a long story
shorter, Quebec did not sign the new constitution because
they had less rights that in the old one. Then came a long
debate about the place of and the special rights of the French
speaking people of Quebec.[...]"
"[...] Between 1989 and 1995 there were many political
events about the future of Canada. [...] After all those years
of debate about the place of Quebec in Canada, came the 1995
referendum. This referendum was held in Quebec province only
and asked the Quebecers if they wanted to separate from Canada
but continue to have some relationship with it anyway. At
a certain point, it became evident that a majority of people
was going to vote for independence. In the last few days of
the debate, thousands of Canadians from other provinces (the
same that said that French-Canadian was not a nation) gathered
to tell the Quebec people how they loved them. I was amazed
to see how the concept of love could be related to a debate
about rights of a collectivity. Finally, the score was 49.5%
for independence and 50.5% against it. The day after and the
years after, nothing changed in the country. Still the same
problems to protect the language, still two different history
taught in Quebec and Canada ... This is just to let you know
that strong political debate about nation and cultural identity
is part of the Quebec public life. You cannot avoid it, it's
on TV regularly. But how this information is received by people,
that is what interest me.[...]"
(edited for intro purposes by Tintin Wulia)
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