Last May in Theaters
Indonesian Premiere
22 minutes | 2025 | Indonesia, South Korea | Experimental | 🔊 Indonesian, Korean
Synopsis
Sinopsis
This work tells the story of the daily lives of two ticketing cinema staff during two incidents that sparked the birth of democracy in Jakarta in 1998 and Gwangju in 1980. They never experienced it directly or went onto the streets to face the soldiers, yet the stories they heard and the voices that reached them felt like an endless war film replaying in their minds.
Schedule
Jadwal
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 | 18:45 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Arief Budiman
Arief Budiman is an artist and filmmaker based in Yogyakarta. He often uses moving images and media art in his work. In recent years, Arief's artistic practice has been closely linked to the internet, archives, and collective memory related to the history of violence of Indonesia. According to him, archives and technology are some instruments that can open up other possibilities in reading past events. Through this instrument, Arief created an alternative history to the established narrative and created a counter-narrative through the memories of people who had been absent and taboo to talk about.
He is one of the SGIFF SEA-Shorts Grant recipient in 2025 and winner of the Grand Prize for Short Korean Competition at DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2025. In 2023, his documentary film got Sharjah Art Foundation - Short Film Grant and won the award for Best Short Documentary at the Indonesian Film Festival, and in 2021, he received the Julius Baer - Next Generation Art Prize in Singapore in the Moving Image category. He is currently a member of two active collectives, MES 56 and Piring Tirbing.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | Piring Tirbing |
| Producer | Rugun Sirait, Eunha Lee |
| Director | Arief Budiman |
| Scriptwriter | Arief Budiman |
| Cinematographer | Arief Budiman; Daniel Hardjono; May 18 Democratic Uprising Archives |
| Production Designer | Arief Budiman |
| Editor | Arief Budiman |
| Main Cast | Irwan Diansyah, Chan Kook |
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| Contact | [email protected] |
