Danif Pradana

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New article and audio interview about Khuruksetra at IFmedia, Issue #2

IFmedia | Indonesia’s Finest Media.

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Filed under: Khuruksetra, News

Recent Activities

  • I’m currently conceptualizing and co-produced a television program about the Indonesian Presidential Election, as well as producing several reality & variety TV Shows.
  • I’ll be guest lecturing at Digital Studio College, providing 2 hours lecture about “Sound Design”. I’m currently researching the material as well as providing the outline and the content of the lecture.
  • I’m going to direct a music video for Indonesia’s first and finest post-metal band. So far we already had a clear idea about how the music video is going to look. We just need a little bit more of meeting and that’s it, we’re ready for shooting.
  • As soon as I finished with the post-metal music video, i’ll be directing another music video for a Bandung based Shoegaze band.
  • Finalizing the sound design for a stop motion short film, “Mereka Sudah Sampai di Jawa”, directed by Andra Fembriarto.
  • Organizing the most expensive-shocking-theatrical-epical-and subsonic performing art of the year in Jakarta. (Soon….Very Soon)
  • Start a new extreme electronics/sound design/metal project with two fellow noise-mate.
  • Writing a script treatment for a transcendental horror A/V production.

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In Absentia & Charlotte | Screening @ UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA

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Filed under: Events, News

Like Mom

This is my sister Ruci Ameria. She reminds me a bit of my mom when she was at Uni.

© 2009 DANIF PRADANA

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Filed under: Photography

IFmedia | Indonesia’s Finest Media

Berdasarkan survey yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan multinasional Internet World Stats, pengguna internet di Indonesia mengalami pertumbuhan yang sangat tinggi. Hanya dalam periode waktu 10 tahun terakhir pengguna internet di negara ini tumbuh lebih dari 1.000 persen. Dan untuk tahun 2008, tercatat sudah 25 juta orang Indonesia yang mengakses internet setiap harinya.

Kami dari IFmedia menyadari akan kehausan warga Indonesia akan informasi, dan kami menawarkan sebuah pengalaman baru dalam mengakses informasi tersebut yaitu dengan membawa konsep majalah online ke tahap berikutnya. Kami menawarkan pengalaman multimedia yang menggabungkan teks, video, foto, dan audio hingga membawa pembaca untuk lebih aktif berinteraksi dengan apa yang ditawarkan.

Content IFmedia akan mengangkat isu-isu seputar pop culture, arts, dan current affairs yang ditujukan bagi kalangan muda Indonesia, baik yang berada di dalam negri maupun yang tinggal di luar Indonesia.

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A Saturday Morning Conversation

With my mom.

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V Film Festival 2009

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Filed under: Events

“I can’t appreciate that show!!!!!”

My sister Ruci Ameria forwarded me an e-mail from her friend who wrote her 1st time experience of watching KHURUKSETRA’s performance at Singapore. Since this is only an opinion written on facebook.com by my sister’s friend, the name of the author will be kept anonymous.  Enjoy!

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I went to Indoverse 2009, an event by PPI Singapura. It was an event of Indonesian cultural performances, although mostly the performances were pop band performances. Then came one rather unforgettable show of “art”—the Khuruksetra (gosh, I had to look through my gmail to get the spelling right).

I guess you can google the group to find out more about it (which I am too lazy to do). But basically, from the one performance I saw, the group seems to be a modern art group that strives to cross traditional boundary and bring performing art to a different level. Different, uh huh. Before the performance started, the MCs introduced the performance as one on “the conflict of love”. Love. Right.

The lights were off. The stage was partly covered with black cloth. Three performers sat on stage. Their heads down. I think they were playing with guitars and a bass. Two screens on the wall showed the black and white video; what the video was about I’m not so sure either. The performers on stage, still heads down, started playing. Dum dum dum (I know a guitar doesn’t sound like that, but the whole thing sounds like that).

Then there was a man whose head was hidden under farmer’s triangular-shaped straw hat, holding sapu lidi in each hand, came silently from one side of the stage. To me, this guy resembled a barong. Though his head was hidden, I felt like I could see his eyes wide open. Dum dum dum.

A shriek broke out of that triangular-shaped straw hat. The creature went into spasms. More shrieks. My ears were hurt. The video on the screens continued playing a black-and-white montage of incomprehensible things. Then the video showed the creature, with sapu lidi on each hand, running through the woods. And approached a cow. Yes, a cow. I was thinking, is the love conflict between this creature and the cow? What the…

So the rest of the show just continued with shrieks, more shrieks, more spasms, an effort of gymnastic talent showcase, and the video that continued to show the love story of this creature and a cow (haha, I’m joking). The creature finally took off the straw hat only to show black-painted face. More shrieks. The video showed someone wrapped in long cloths, and a cow, I think the cow’s insides. Morbid. Yeah.

And it ended. Clap clap clap.

I just sat there. I told my friend who sat besides me, “I can’t appreciate that show.” He said the same thing earlier, and went off to the restroom in the middle of the show. I lingered on my seat, still watching this art performance that I could not comprehend.

Filed under: Khuruksetra

The Making of BLACK VEIL #1

A screenshot preview from an upcoming documentary about my photography project “Black Veil”. Documented by filmmaker Andra Fembriarto. Natalie Veronica is my very first model. She is also going to appear in the video version called “ALTER”.

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Three Sisters

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