JOGJA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL #12 2017 FLUIDITY

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Philip Cheah FESTIVAL CURATOR

Siapa yang Tahu ke Mana Waktu Berlalu

Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Saya ingin mengenang masa-masa awal NETPAC. Ketika itu, kami menyempatkan berkumpul di kamar-kamar hotel yang terpisah untuk menyelenggarakan rapat dewan di sela-sela jadwal festival film. Ketika itu, NETPAC belum bernama NETPAC. Nama tersebut baru didaftarkan secara resmi pada tahun 1994. Maka, sejak kelompok ini diinisiasi tahun 1990, selama empat tahun kami menggelar pertemuan-pertemuan informal.

In the early days of NETPAC when we used to congregate in disparate hotel rooms during film festivals for our board meetings, we had one memorable session that always stuck in my brain. This was before NETPAC was known as NETPAC. The name was only formally registered in 1994, so there were four years of informal meetings after the group was inaugurated in 1990.

Ada satu momen yang selalu tersimpan dalam benak saya. Suatu kali, di tengah pertemuan untuk mencari jati diri itu, Jeannette Hereniko (dulu menjabat sebagai Direktur Hawaii International Film Festival) mengajukan pertanyaan, “Kalau ada, apa alasan egois kalian mau bergabung dengan kelompok perfilman Asia ini?” Itu bukanlah pertanyaan yang aneh. Hal itu wajar diutarakan sebab sejak awal, NETPAC pada dasarnya terdiri dari sekumpulan teman. Kami adalah sesama rekan pelaku perfilman yang menapaki jalan yang sama dan mulai mengenal satu sama lain di perjalanan itu. Pendiri NETPAC, Aruna Vasudev, selalu memuji Hereniko karena berhasil membuatnya terkagum-kagum pada pengalaman Hereniko menonton sinema Asia.

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During this particular soul-searching meeting, Jeannette Hereniko (then director of the Hawaii International Film Festival) asked this question, “If anyone here has a selfish reason for wanting to be in this Asian cinema group, what would it be?”

It was not an odd question. It was understandable since this was an early period of NETPAC when the group was basically composed of friends. We were fellow practitioners who walked the same path and began to recognise each other. In fact, NETPAC’s founder, Aruna Vasudev, has always credited Hereniko for turning her head around concerning the experience of watching Asian


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