Public Lecture: “Beyond Nostalgia: The Future of Analog Film”
The “Beyond Nostalgia: The Future of Analog Film” program invites practitioners, filmmakers, and the public to explore the relevance, challenges, and future of analog film amidst the digital and artificial intelligence era, with a special focus on the creative industry context and the preservation of cinematic heritage in Indonesia.
SCHEDULE
🗓️ Public Lecture : Tuesday, 1 December 2026
⏰ Time: 13.00 – 15.00 WIB
📍 Venue: Artotel Suites Bianti
💳 Registration fee: Rp15.000,-
Speaker
Orlando Bassi
Orlando Bassi began his career in Switzerland in the make-up and wig industry, founding Atelier Bassi and building decades of expertise in craftsmanship for stage and screen. His passion for cinema led him to establish Movie Studio Bali and the Analog Film Center—a unique hub for analog filmmaking in Indonesia, offering film cameras, processing, high-resolution scanning, restoration and education. Today, he preserves film heritage while developing new formats and supporting a new generation of filmmakers
Dani Huda
Dani Huda (b. 1995, Bandung) is an Indonesian filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across film, visual, performance and sound art whose works delve into the subjects of human spirituality, mysticism, and ecology–revealing the deep, ancient ties between human consciousness and the natural world. Huda opened ‘Merasa: 7 Days of Regeneration’ a festival curated by Erykah Badu at Potato Head Bali with his expanded cinema performance ‘Mandala’. He was the only Indonesian filmmaker to join Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab: Filming in the Amazon Jungle in 2022. His latest short film, Within Tirta (2025), marks a technical milestone as the first film in the Southeast Asia region shot on 35mm VistaVision, created as part of the 6th VH Award - Asia's leading award for media artists.
Peter Matthies
Peter Matthies studied music, literature, and film. After completing his studies, he worked in various areas of the film industry before joining Cinegrell in Zurich, where he specialized in analog film processing and restoration. Since 2025, he has been building the Analog Film Center in Bali together with Orlando Bassi, focusing on analog film cameras, film processing, scanning, and restoration. His passion lies in every aspect of filmmaking – from creative expression to technical craftsmanship.
Umi Lestari
Umi Lestari is an Indonesian researcher, curator, and filmmaker whose work navigates marginalized cinema and the nation’s forgotten postcolonial past. Through archival and moving-image practices, she restores obscured voices and reimagines Indonesian film history. Her projects engage with lost figures, spectral archives, and the afterlives of images, bridging research, curation, and cinematic form. She now serves as the Chair of the Film Committee, Dewan Kesenian Jakarta. She teaches at the Film Department, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara. She is also a member of Kelas Liarsip's collective
Moderator
Gerry Junus
Gerry Junus is a film programmer and curator based in Indonesia.
He serves as the Program Director at KDM CINEMA, an alternative cinema space in Yogyakarta, and is a film programmer for the Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD).
His curatorial practice spans various independent initiatives, including Klub Sinema Sisifus in Salatiga, which supports Dokumentaria, a project that framed archival materials and documentation as cinematic gestures to critically examine nation-state histories.
Gerry actively contributes to the film ecosystem across Indonesia as a programmer, curator, selector, and juror. In tandem with his curatorial work, he conducts research on film festivals and cinema practices in Southeast Asia