After Colossus

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After Colossus

After Colossus

original title:

After Colossus

cast:

Ari Dwianto, Jamaluddin Latif, Nizar Tama, Annisa Hertami, Berti Galang

screenplay:

Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Johannes Weill

cinematography:

Aditya Kresna

editing:

Krisna E. Putranto

music:

Gardika Gigih, Ananda Badudu

production:

Tak Studioworks, VISIO Production Fund, in collaboration with Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Mondriaan Fonds, Kohesiinitiatives

country:

Italy/Indonesia/Netherlands

year:

2024

film run:

29'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (01/11/2024)

festivals & awards:

  • Berlinale 2025: Berlinale Shorts
  • Schermo dell’arte 2024

Amid the mass hysteria over the killings of alleged sorcerers following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1999, a group of researchers discovers a sack of mysterious documents. As they sift through its contents—unsettling reports, enigmatic photographs, and fragmented recordings—they gradually piece together a hidden story: a secretive military project in which rural children were taken and subjected to covert experiments and indoctrination. Drawing from magical realism and mysticism, Kusno’s fiction utilises a blend of formats—including Super 8mm, Hi8, Video8, digital 35mm, and AI-generated images trained on historical and family photo archives—to speculate on the blind spots of Indonesia’s turbulent history.