Can you hear the objects speak? Screening - Short films • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Diyantini Adeline, Vladimir Vidanovski, Arahmaiani, Andrea, Peter Hylands, Taufiqurrahman Kifu, Hattie Wade, Riar Rizaldi

Can you hear the objects speak? Screening - Short films

As part of Can you hear the objects speak?, this interdisciplinary film program by wysiwyg and Asian Movie Night explores the living worlds of displaced heritage, foregrounding the emotional, cultural, spiritual, and communal values of objects taken from Indonesia and the animist, relational cosmopraxis they reveal.

This program is part of interdisciplinary film program Can you hear the objects speak? by film platform wysiwyg and diasporic film platform Asian Movie Night. Spanning multiple events across various cities, the program seeks to reclaim the living worlds of displaced heritage. Rather than focusing solely on material significance—a logic that often mirrored colonial frameworks of preservation—the program foregrounds the emotional, cultural, spiritual, and communal values these objects hold for the communities from which they were taken, as a gateway to understand the animist and relational cosmopraxis shared by many Indigenous nations in the present day Indonesia.

Tonight’s program consist of five short films.

Dear Shadow, My Old Friend (Sihir Kamar Gelap)
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno | 2023 | Indonesia, Netherlands | 13’

A phone call from within a dream recalls encounters with shadows in a photographic darkroom. Celluloid fragments open onto inherited memories, blurring personal and collective memory. The film becomes a meditation on displacement, history, home, and the echoes that persist across generations.

The Stone That Remembers
Diyantini Adeline (developed in collaboration with Vladimir Vidanovski) | 2026 | Indonesia | 14’

The Stone That Remembers interprets the Durga Mahisasuramardini ­- statue’s journey from its home, the Singhasari Temple, to the hands of colonizers, and various museums. The film follows the patriarchal displacement of a woman that represents the Durga, exploring the parallels between the fate of the statue and many women today.

Sharp Objects
Taufiqurrahman Kifu and Hattie Wade | 2026 | Indonesia, the Netherlands | 16’

Sharp Objects follows the forgotten story of the Klungkung keris back to it’s origins and to its post-colonial relevance to Bali today, tracing the looting of the keris to modern day tourism in Bali. The film juxtaposes the ‘knowledge’ of colonial archives against community-based knowledge and mythology, convoluting the understanding of what is preserved, what is dead and what is lost.

Arahmaiani: Between the Mountain and the Sea  ACT 1: River elegy
Performance by Arahmaiani, directed by Andrea and Peter Hylands | 2014 | Indonesia, Australia, India | 11’

Arahmaiani: Between the Mountain and the Sea is a 3-act performance art documentary produced by Creative Cowboy Films featuring prominent Indonesian multidisciplinary artist Arahmaiani Feisal.

Kasiterit
Riar Rizaldi | 2018 | 18’

One-third of the global tin supply is extracted from Bangka island in Indonesia. Tin is the most impacted mineral by the upcoming technological development, which includes artificial intelligence and technology for renewable energy. Natasha is a solar-powered A.I. voice, and in this film, they trace their genealogy and the truth of their origin; from the capital liquidity to labour dynamic. With their feminised voice—as quite often performed by other AI-powered voice assistants produced by tech-companies, Natasha narrates the emergence of tin in Bangka island and their existence from the perspective of tropical anthropology of nature, value theory, philosophy of time, genetic mutation, geopolitics, and automation.

Regisseur Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Diyantini Adeline, Vladimir Vidanovski, Arahmaiani, Andrea, Peter Hylands, Taufiqurrahman Kifu, Hattie Wade, Riar Rizaldi
Land Nederland, Indonesië, Australië, India
Taal Engels, Indonesisch
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Speelduur 90 min
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