In 2023, Jogja Film Archive is in its 3rd edition. After being initiated more than two years ago, the program was deliberately created to become an exhibition and sharing platform for film archive owners from various backgrounds. This year, we, the Indonesian Film Archivist Society, tried to present a new nuance in archive activation with a collaboration with Krack! Studio in the city of Yogyakarta.

No longer only presenting film archives nuanced in Jogja, but also we try to present films that have been difficult to access by the Indonesian people, the films shown are one of them is Si Pintjang by Kotot Sukardi (1951) and Pulang by Basuki Effendy (1952).

According to Andika Wahyu as Program Director of Jogja Film Archive, the two films were deliberately chosen to look back at the urgency of Indonesian film archives during the Old Order era today, which are in a very worrying state. The two films were obtained by IFAS in collaboration with Kemendikbudristek, which had digitized films in collaboration with Sinematek Indonesia.

The event, held on October 1, 2023, was attended by more than 40 cultural communities in Yogyakarta, who enthusiastically welcomed the screening of the films of two “accused” LEKRA directors. But it was the screening that sparked a long discussion outside the event about how the film survived, and what its makers experienced after the transition of power in 1965.