TRILOGIA ILLUSORIA
The trilogy comprises Silap MataBayang Berbalam, Sola Fata, and Jurus Kramat, three seemingly interconnected stories set in a shared universe. It’s a world inhabited by Siluman Garudha, a lost colonial man, and two working-class figures, Alam and Bening, who spend their days inside a gallery, suspended between routine and something more ghostly.
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directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, produced by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, co-produced with Anita Reza Zein, screenplay by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Set in a temporality that feels slightly dislocated, the film restages a colonial expedition: an arrival in the tropics driven by the urge to survey and classify an unfamiliar world. As the journey unfolds, the line between documentation and invention begins to blur, and what appears as objective inquiry reveals itself as projection. Midway, the illusion collapses as the camera falters and the crew enters the frame, exposing the fiction as a constructed vision shaped by power, memory, and the colonial gaze. Turning inward, the film reveals the mechanisms behind its own images and dismantles the apparatus of power from within.
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directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, produced by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, co-produced with Anita Reza Zein, screenplay by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Three workers feel a strong sense of loss for something they never had, and end up casually taking a boring painting. After stealing a mooi Indië landscape from the gallery where they work, they place it in the back of an old pickup truck and head toward the sea. The journey begins quietly, but gradually slips into a surreal register, interrupted by a keroncong-style karaoke performance as figures from the colonial archive enter the present.
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Featured
AFTER COLOSSUS
directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, produced by Leonardo Bigazzi, written by Johannes Weill & Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Production 2024; Italy, Netherlands, Indonesia
In the chaotic aftermath of Indonesia's dictatorship collapse, researchers discover a forgotten archive revealing a secret project that manipulated dreams and memories.
ANATOMY OF NOSTALGIA
montage by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, archives Eye Filmmuseum Collection
Production 2024, Indonesia
A montage experiment of fragmented memories, this film deconstructs colonial archives originally used as propaganda. It questions the purpose of romanticized, nostalgic depictions of colonized lands. With a score blending traditional and modern sounds, the film challenges nostalgia and the extraction of knowledge for colonial benefit, presenting itself as both a question and an abstraction.
World Premiere IFFR Focus programmes: TA Kusno
UNRELEASED
directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, performed by Ari Dwianto, cinematography TA Kusno
Production 2024, Indonesia
In Ari Dwianto's body, memories speak through movement. This film reveals hidden "ghosts" in his dance—adolescent memories shaped by discipline and the creeping shadows of dictatorship, where authoritarian power takes form in his gestures.
World Premiere IFFR Focus programmes: TA Kusno
FEVER DREAM
directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, performed by Jamaluddin Latif, cinematography Aditya Kresna
Production 2024, Indonesia
A weary actor awakens in a black box, only to find himself performing in a surreal production. Watching his actions play out on a screen, he becomes ensnared in a disorienting loop where reality and illusion blur, and time and space dissolve.
written, directed and edited by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, produced by TA Kusno, co-produced by ED Mayasari cinematography by Aditya Kresna, Krisna E. Putranto music YesNoWave Production 2024, Indonesia
This documentary explores the tradition of a war game in Java that involves spirits and horses made of woven bamboo. It takes us to an abandoned sugar factory, where the story of the Dutch East Indies governor-general portrait frames unfolds. The film deep-dives into the afterlives of these frames through artistic interventions at the Rijksmuseum.
written, directed and edited by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, archive collection of Eyefilmmuseum, Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies Production 2023, Netherlands, Indonesia
Penetrating black and white archival imagery paints a haunting picture of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia.
written, directed and edited by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
produced by Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona, collaborating with the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève and Art Hub Copenhagen
production: 2022, Indonesia
While asleep, a young man becomes trapped in his subconscious, exploring the murky landscapes of his memories. As he untangles his fragmented dreams and forgotten recollections, he confronts the wounds and venom that shape his every move.
written, directed and edited by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
produced by Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona, collaborating with the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève and Art Hub Copenhagen
production: 2022, Indonesia
In his hypnotic Terra Incognita, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno questions colonial power and heritage by stretching in the liminality of fiction, history, imagination and memory.
screenplay, montage and film directed by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno stageplay and performance directed by Shohifur Ridho’i performed by Jamaluddin Latif and Ari Dwianto
Two dancers are performing a repertoire, establishing and dismantling the idea of monuments, ghosts, and the absence of light. Meanwhile, the same performers and the director fictionalize its auditive ambiance through a choreographed sound production.
directed and edited by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno featuring Rendra Bagus Pamungkas music director Gardika Gigih
In the 1990s, Kusbirin's documentary on Rampogan Siluman Macan in Tanah Runcuk was banned, and its original negative was lost. Later, the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies remade the film using interviews from the found tape recordings.