Film Screening & Discussion
Film is Her Notebook: Shorts curated by Lisabona Rahman
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Followed by a discussion with curator Lisabona Rahman
In 2018, Indonesian film programmer/archivist Lisabona Rahman spent time at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in the Living Archive residency program. Her focus of interest at the time was women filmmakers’ work on film. It was during this search that she met with filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Ute Aurand has been working as a filmmaker since her student times in Berlin from 1979 and as a film programmer since 1990. Her work features people and landscape around her, wherever she goes. The films that she made use colors and compositions like paintings, move like films, keep personal records like diaries and are created in an economy that is very distinctly a practice of celluloid filmmaking.
Besides making films, Ute Aurand also curates film programs, showcasing the works of women filmmakers from all around the world to the cinephile public in Germany. Her programming work shows the diverse ways that film has been used by many women as a sort of notebook to record personal surroundings, later presented in form of a film. The film as a medium has a dimension of physicality, just like a notebook or a diary would, which contains records of the filmmakers’ live and her emotions. Yet differently from a diary (or home movies), these films are made to be shared with the public therefore creating an interesting mix between personal documentation and artistic expression.
In Jakarta, Ute Aurand shows her films and teaches a 16mm filmmaking workshop. Additionally, Lisabona Rahman presents a program of four films by other female filmmakers, conceived during her Living Archive residency. All films are shown in 16mm film format.
A Portrait of Ga, Margaret Tait, (1952, 4 min)
Portrait of a mother from the eyes of a daughter.
Notebook, Marie Menken, (1962, 11 min)
A collection of atmosphere and events witnessed and experiences by the filmmaker in New York City.
Colour Poems, Margaret Tait, (1974, 11 min)
An assembly of hand painted-hand scratched, photographic images and poetry, as the filmmaker’s way to remember the Spanish Civil War.
O-de-ka-ke Diary, Utako Koguchi, (1988, 47 min)
A mental trip through a woman’s physical journey through citiscape and landscape.
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Lisabona Rahman has been working as film programmer since 2006. She took up a specialization in film preservation and curatorial studies from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) in 2013, as well as film restoration technique from the L’immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna, Italy. Lisabona currently is based in Jakarta and works as a freelance consultant on film restoration and archival film programming.
The program “Film is Her Notebook” was conceived by Lisabona Rahman and Ute Aurand and is presented by Lab Labalaba and Goethe-Institut, supported by Rubanah Underground Hub, Kinosaurus and the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin).
Details
Rubanah Underground Hub
Jalan Timor No. 25
Menteng
Indonesia
Language: English
Price: Free and open to the public