Lecture performance:
Session One 12 September 2025 Friday 5pm
Session Two 12 September 6pm
Session Three 12 September 7pm
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Running Time : Lecture performance 15 minutes approximately + 23 minutes video
Expanded from Rizki Lazuardi’s Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020), this spatial installation and lecture performance are an analytical speculation on the pre-production of 1982 Peter Weir’s feature The Year of Living Dangerously. Portraying the downfall of socialist-leaning Indonesian first president Soekarno, the motion picture adaptation of CJ Koch novel was going to be produced in Jakarta but had to be ultimately relocated to Manila as shooting permit was rejected, which led to Weir’s expression “All slums look alike, after all”.
The essay film and objects are artifacts “constructed” from the reconnaissance trip of the set director to Jakarta.
The film Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020) will also be shown at Close-up cinema on 6 September 2025 as part of After Gutta Percha: on Lab Laba Laba & Karel Doing.
This event is funded by The British Council.
Rizki Lazuardi is an Indonesian artist extensively working with moving image and expanded cinema. Center to his work are narratives and images entangled in state and institutional authority. His works and programs have been part in numerous festivals, museums, and off spaces, among others EMAF Osnabrück, Image Forum Tokyo, Singapore Art Museum, and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Lazuardi studied film and time-based media in HFBK Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Together with other artists and filmmakers, he runs Lab Laba Laba, a Jakarta-based artist film laboratory.
www.rizkilaz.com
Image from Rizki Lazuardi