Hafiz Rancajale

Hafiz Rancajale

Pekanbaru, Indonesia

Hafiz Rancajale (Pekanbaru, 1971) is an artist, filmmaker, curator, and co-founder of Forum Lenteng. He graduated from the Jakarta Institute for the Arts (IKJ) and is currently the Chairman of Forum Lenteng and the Artistic Director of ARKIPEL.

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Terakota Batujaya 2023

The Batujaya Temple in Karawang revolutionized the notion that terracotta buildings from the Hindu-Buddhist period came from a younger period than andesite. Sites stretching from prehistoric times to the 10th century are evidence of the archipelago's cosmopolitanism since the early century AD based on the Citarum River. The discovery and interpretation of it were also guided by Indonesian archaeologists, long after the colonial antiquities department had led archaeological missions in the past. This film is a poem for ancient terracotta, soil, archaeologists and the citizens of Batujaya today.
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Rangkasbitung: A Piece of Tale 2011

A piece of story which has been taken from two young men from Rangkasbitung – it’s a small town which has a distance 120 kilometers from the capital city of Jakarta. Kiwong and Iron have a profession as a tofu sellers. Kiwong sells tofu in the economy train of Rangkasbitung to Jakarta while Iron sells the fresh tofu in the traditional Rangkasbitung market. Those characters are portraits of young generation from post Reformation in 1998 where Indonesia was a country which had been reigned by military regime before, and turn to be a large democratic country in the world.
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9808: An Anthology of 10th Year Indonesian Reform 2008

In May 1998 something happened in Indonesia that no one had thought possible. After persistent demonstrations, primarily by students, the repressive era of President Suharto came to an end. Many film makers from the present generation were closely involved in this revolution at the time. In this omnibus film, ten film makers look back on events.