There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are
locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But
in this documentary, the mouse deer does not die - instead, it
manages to play between them and get what it wants. This
film documents a post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, the
second poorest region in Indonesia, where an international
body is assigned to build houses, while an Acehnese village
chief leads his people through the ups and downs of the
ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation process. The film
very intimately shows how complicated it is to survive a traumatic
event and then experience global intervention. Rebuilding
a house in post-tsunami Aceh brings into play the whole
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Aryo Danusiri
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Aryo Danusiri
Montaggio / Editing Darwin Nugraha
Musica / Music Thoersi Argeswara
Suono / Sound Eva Nuridasari, Andri Munadi, Aryo Danusiri
Produzione / Production UNHABITAT Indonesia
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 90’
Formato / Format DV
Aryo Danusiri
Born 1973 in Jakarta, 2005 he mastered
in Visual Cultural Studies from
Tromsoe University, Norway, with an
ethno-documentary about West
Papua, Lukas' Moment, awarded as
Best Student Film at the RAI Ethnographic
FF, UK. His first Aceh documentary,
Village Goat Takes The
Beating (1999), was an official selection
at the 2001 Amnesty FF, Amsterdam.
Since then, his works have
been screened at various festivals
like Brisbane, Taiwan and Rotterdam.
Other documentaries: Viva
Indonesia (2001), Abracadabra!
(2003), In The Name of Sami (2004),
A Mail (2005), The First Step (2006).
His current project is Connexxcreen
for Countering Fundamentalism in
Indonesia. Playing Between Elephants
is his first feature length documentary |