2021: Malam Berkah
This episode of our 2021 video series is a dinner conversation by the electronic music duo Gabber Modus Operandi, taking place in Denpasar, Indonesia. They talk about Bali, toxic tourism, colonialism, and also some good news around the locals.
This video will be screened at Rewire Festival 2021. The video has thus been taken down temporarily and will be accessible on this page after the festival again.
The video is taken at Berkah Jaya, a site for emergency hawker food, made by their friend Putu Eka, who also shot this video. Like other thousands if not millions of residents in Bali, Eka lost his job during the pandemic because he depends on unhealthy forms of mega tourism.
A video by Putu Eka
Featuring Aditya Surya Taruna and M. Ikhsan Syahrul (Gabber Modus Operandi)
For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?
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Published on March 18, 2021
Last updated on April 10, 2024
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From Beyoncés colonial stagings in mainstream pop to the ethical problems of Western people «documenting» non-Western cultures.
From the electronic music duo Gabber Modus Operandi discussing toxic tourism in Bali to the growing displacement of fado culture in Lisbon as an effect of gentrification.
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