Napak Tilas untuk Tiba Kembali Padamu (Pilgrimage to Arrive Back to You)
by Raras Umaratih
Indonesia / Germany, 2024
synopsis
Fragments of images and words taken from my personal diaries from 2017-2024, mostly in my mother tongue. This journey through my personal archive, touching issues of colonialism, identity, and relationships, is like getting reacquainted with a past Me who is still living in parallel – as if they are sitting next to me. The gendershifting narrator, a different voice for each different diary entry, attempts to acknowledge the collective cacophony that births and shapes an individual. A song named rage, confusion, depression, joy and pride.
about the director
Raras Umaratih (they/them/dia) b. 1999 is a multimedia artist, writer, and organizer who grew up in the territory known today as Indonesia, and is currently living and working in Berlin. Their work often deals with the present absentees, personal archives, the margins, and the in-between as a source of conflict that has the potential to bring clarity.
