Editorial

Dua minggu berturut-turut ini kita dadakan mengadakan NoPI (Nonton sampai PagI) bersama-sama teman-teman yang lalu-lalang datang. Beberapa film yang kita putar: Offside (Jafar Panahi), The Flight of Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien), I’m Not There (Todd Haynes), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), Revenge of Cameraman (Wladislaw Starewicz), Osamu Tezuka shorts, Meat Love, L’homme sans ombre (Geoges Schwizgebel), Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July), Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman), Vincent (Tim Burton), La Jeteé (Chris Marker), Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reineger), Persona (Ingmar Bergman), dll dsb dkk. Tanpa rencana, pemberitahuan dari mulut ke mulut, makanan BDD seadanya dibagi-bagikan, sarapan pagi di Pasar Pakis. Sok utopis, entah sampai kapan.

Saya mendapatkan banyak sumbangan pikiran, bantuan tenaga, tulisan, donasi buku, film, dan banyak lagi yang jujur tak ternilai. Kalau saya lanjutkan sekali lagi akan menjadi kalimat-kalimat sentimentalis. Padahal reputasi saya sudah terlanjur (sok) sinis. Tetap saja, terima kasih banyak untuk semuanya.

Jangan lupa, WAJIB datang ke pentas Electronic City, teater multimedia, Minggu 16 November, jam 19.30, di Gedung Cak Durasim. Ya seminggu ini ada Festival Cak Durasim, mampir-mampirlah ke Taman Budaya Jatim…

Resensi

Buku: The Piano Teacher / Sang Guru Piano

by Elfriede Jelinek

Austria | 1983 | available in English (Serpent’s Tail) and Indonesian (KPG)

Movie DVD (dir. Michael Haneke, released by Kino) available

A somewhat failed musical prodigy, the strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night. Living (and still sleeping in one bed) with her domineering mother, who’s “old enough to be her grandmother”, her life has been congenitally forced along her Mother’s ideal. Mother knows …

Buku: Nine Suitcases

by Béla Zsolt

Hungary | Pimlico | 2005 | translated from the Hungarian by Ladislaus Löb

In 1944, the Jewish ghetto in the Hungarian town of Nagyvarad faces imminent deportation to death camps in Poland; the narrator of Nine Suitcases is hiding under a false identity in the hospital, along with his wife. As an intellectual, he is asked for advice on such questions as whether a girl should sleep with a guard to try to save her father and whether the sick …[/lang_id][lang_en]

Editorial

Dua minggu berturut-turut ini kita dadakan mengadakan NoPI (Nonton sampai PagI) bersama-sama teman-teman yang lalu-lalang datang. Beberapa film yang kita putar: Offside (Jafar Panahi), The Flight of Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien), I’m Not There (Todd Haynes), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), Revenge of Cameraman (Wladislaw Starewicz), Osamu Tezuka shorts, Meat Love, L’homme sans ombre (Geoges Schwizgebel), Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July), Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman), Vincent (Tim Burton), La Jeteé (Chris Marker), Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reineger), Persona (Ingmar Bergman), dll dsb dkk. Tanpa rencana, pemberitahuan dari mulut ke mulut, makanan BDD seadanya dibagi-bagikan, sarapan pagi di Pasar Pakis. Sok utopis, entah sampai kapan.

Saya mendapatkan banyak sumbangan pikiran, bantuan tenaga, tulisan, donasi buku, film, dan banyak lagi yang jujur tak ternilai. Kalau saya lanjutkan sekali lagi akan menjadi kalimat-kalimat sentimentalis. Padahal reputasi saya sudah terlanjur (sok) sinis. Tetap saja, terima kasih banyak untuk semuanya.

Jangan lupa, WAJIB datang ke pentas Electronic City, teater multimedia, Minggu 16 November, jam 19.30, di Gedung Cak Durasim. Ya seminggu ini ada Festival Cak Durasim, mampir-mampirlah ke Taman Budaya Jatim…

Resensi

Buku: The Piano Teacher / Sang Guru Piano

by Elfriede Jelinek

Austria | 1983 | available in English (Serpent’s Tail) and Indonesian (KPG)

Movie DVD (dir. Michael Haneke, released by Kino) available

A somewhat failed musical prodigy, the strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night. Living (and still sleeping in one bed) with her domineering mother, who’s “old enough to be her grandmother”, her life has been congenitally forced along her Mother’s ideal. Mother knows …

Buku: Nine Suitcases

by Béla Zsolt

Hungary | Pimlico | 2005 | translated from the Hungarian by Ladislaus Löb

In 1944, the Jewish ghetto in the Hungarian town of Nagyvarad faces imminent deportation to death camps in Poland; the narrator of Nine Suitcases is hiding under a false identity in the hospital, along with his wife. As an intellectual, he is asked for advice on such questions as whether a girl should sleep with a guard to try to save her father and whether the sick …