Bendungan

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Bendungan

Bendungan
Jee Chan
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Singapore,
Indonesia,
Germany
2024
30 minutes
English,
Indonesian,
Javanese,
Dutch
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

The Indonesian word “bendungan” can have various meanings. It is a term for very different structures that can contain, hold back, or block water, a dam for example, an embankment or shoreline stabilisations on rivers and oceans. For this experimental work, Jee Chan, a representative of an artistic practice between (dance) performance and expanded choreography, has talked to three persons who live near water in Indonesia and the Netherlands. Both countries are linked by the European colonisation of Southeast Asia and the ensuing crimes. Each of the incidents shared in this film reflects a different perspective on this period and its consequences, tells another story without seeking explicitly to “write history”.
Jee Chan addresses the question of how memory and knowledge become manifest not only in our memory but also in our socio-spatial environment, in waterscapes and the human body. Using choreographed gestures in tranquil long takes, oral history, and interventions in space, they make memory tangible as a multi-layered activity tied to its environment.


Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Jee Chan
Cinematographer
Nelson Yeo
Editor
Stefan Pente
Producer
Jee Chan, Elysa Wendi, Liao Jiekai

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