Tellurian Drama

TV / audiovisual

Christine CABASSET took part in the discussion about the film Tellurian Drama (2020) directed by the Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, as part of the international documentary film festival Cinéma du Réel with which the Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) is associated (12 to 21 March 2021). The film takes place in the mountains of West Java…

Synopsis: May 5th, 1923. The Dutch East Indies government celebrated the opening of a new radio station in West Java. It was called Radio Malabar. In March 2020, the local Indonesian government plans to reactivate the station as a historical site and tourist attraction. Tellurian Drama imagines what would have happened in between: the vital role of mountain in history; colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology; and the invisible power of indigenous ancestral.

Watch the film, the discussion.