Born in 1979 in Jakarta - Indonesia, Dimas Jayasrana is an activist in films. In 1999, he moved to Purwokerto, a small universitary city located in Central Java, where he took part to numerous cultural activist movements in different fields (theater, music, film…). In 2001, he founded there a group named “Youth Power” , which developed various cultural projects and actions, and initiated the “Indonesian Film Festival - Pesta Sinema Indonesia” in Purwokerto. Back to Jakarta, Dimas Jayasrana lead film projects with Goethe Institut in Jakarta, “German Indonesian Film Award Winner” and film roadshow “Deutschland Gesehen Von”. From 2004 to 2006, Dimas Jayasrana developed then research and documentation on video and image in urban context in ruangrupa, the creative artist initiative based in Jakarta. He became the project officer of different visual art projects, like WA – a collaboration street mural painting project realised in 2005; and the managing director of a graphic designer company. Since 2006, Dimas Jayasrana is curator of “à courts d’écran” in CCF - French Cultural Centre in Jakarta, a program offering a regular space to French and Indonesian short movies. In the same time and in order to the network of film communities in Indonesia, Dimas Jayasrana is setting up a website presenting a database of all these communities.

As we can see today, many film group or collectives are active and digital video is one of the important ‘spare parts’ to make what we called new Indonesian cinemas. Further than that, video can be a tool for this young filmmaker to define themselves to their environment. This selection can give a big picture of it, especially at independent film scene. Independent film scene is still on the move; to search and experiment themselves to find and define in concept and artistic ways how digital video can facilitate them to manifest their idea. If it’s a laboratories, then it have many possibilities to develop and that is why Indonesian short film can be something really exciting to follow.

Renas Makki
Indonesia
2004 / DV / fiction / 0:05:08 / One Production

The tragic side of life is portrayed by a woman forced to become a prostitute, trying to survive and feed her family.

Edwin
Indonesia
2003 / DV / fiction / 0:06:00

A child is confused how to face his family. The word is losing it’s meaning.

Tasya P. Maulana
Indonesia
2004 / DV / doc / 0:04:00

What is the description of Jakarta in one word by its citizens ?

Tintin Wulia
Indonesia
2003 / DV / animation / 0:05:00

Yes Sir, everything’s just fine. We’ve lost the track of human scale, but be assured :everything’s definitely ok.

Maulana M. Pasha
Indonesia
2006 / DV / doc / 0:07:00 / Forum Lenteng

Orientation is changing, home address isn’t the right clue anymore, but the direction is changing to manual.

Dimas Jayasrana
Indonesia
2004 / DV / doc expérimental / 0:07:00

Pain is so close to pleasure.

Danial Rifki
Indonesia
2006 / DV / fiction / 0:10:00

A meditative scenery in a swimming pool in the morning.

Bagasworo A.
Indonesia
2006 / DV / 0:05:00 / Forum Lenteng

When attribute of an adzan announcer questioned.

Ifa Isfansyah
Indonesia
2006 / DV / fiction / 0:15:00 / Fourcolours films

On May 27th 2006, 05 :55 AM, 5.9 richter earthquake shaked Yogyakarta and killed 6000 people, exactly 10 days before final exam for elementary school and 14 days before world cup 2006 started.