Public Lecture by Mr. Daniel Ziv, Followed by a Screening of Jalanan
Jalanan
Jalanan (‘Streetside’), an award-winning 2013 feature-length Indonesian documentary film directed and produced by Daniel Ziv and featuring Jakarta street musicians Bambang “Ho” Mulyono, Titi Juwariyah and Boni Putera. It tells the captivating story of Boni, Ho & Titi, three gifted, charismatic street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous 5-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia. The film follows the young marginalized musicians and their never before seen sub-culture, while also painting a striking, moody and intimate portrait of Indonesia’s frenzied capital city. Using the powerful soundtrack of the musicians’ original compositions to drive the film, it traces their elusive quest for identity and love in the day-to-day of a city overrun by the effects of globalization and corruption.
Speaker Bio
A native of Canada, Daniel Ziv moved to Jakarta in 1999 and began documenting urban life in Indonesia’s bustling capital city as a writer, magazine editor and filmmaker He founded and edited the popular monthly Djakarta! – The City Life Magazine, and is author of the urban pop culture book Jakarta Inside Out, an Asian bestseller, and its follow-up volume Bangkok Inside Out. He holds an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of London, and is fluent in Indonesian.
He will be lecturing on contemporary Indonesian issues, and then he will treat us to a screening of his critically-acclaimed film Jalanan, the captivating story of three gifted and charismatic street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous 5-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia. The Public Lecture will be moderated by Dr John Roosa, CSEAR Management Committee member and Associate Professor of History at UBC.
An Indonesian dinner will be provided from 5.00pm-6.00pm.
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Sponsor: Centre for Southeast Asia Research
By: Daniel Ziv, Director
Type: Event
