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After Colossus
by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, 2024, 29′
Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
SCREENPLAY: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Johannes Weill
PHOTOGRAPHY: Aditya Kresna
EDITING: Krisna E. Putranto
SOUND: Prima Setiawan, Hengga Tiyasa
MUSIC: Gardika Gigih, Ananda Badudu
IMAGE CREDITS: courtesy the artist, Lo schermo dell’arte, and Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
PHOTOGRAPHY: Aditya Kresna
EDITING: Krisna E. Putranto
SOUND: Prima Setiawan, Hengga Tiyasa
MUSIC: Gardika Gigih, Ananda Badudu
IMAGE CREDITS: courtesy the artist, Lo schermo dell’arte, and Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
PRODUCER: Leonardo Bigazzi
PRODUCTION: Tak Studioworks
ov: Bahasa Indonesia; st: English, Italian
PRODUCTION: Tak Studioworks
ov: Bahasa Indonesia; st: English, Italian
Amid the mass hysteria over the killings of alleged sorcerers following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1999, a group of researchers discovers a sack of mysterious documents. As they sift through its contents—unsettling reports, enigmatic photographs, and fragmented recordings—they gradually piece together a hidden story: a secretive military project in which rural children were taken and subjected to covert experiments and indoctrination. Drawing from magical realism and mysticism, Kusno’s fiction utilises a blend of formats—including Super 8mm, Hi8, Video8, digital 35mm, and AI-generated images trained on historical and family photo archives—to speculate on the blind spots of Indonesia’s turbulent history.
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Indonesia 1989, based between Amsterdam and Yogyakarta) is an artist and filmmaker. He has been exhibited globally in various museums, including the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Mumbai City Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Center for Fine Art, Brussels. Kusno has participated in international biennials, including the Equator Biennale and the 13th Gwangju Biennale. His films have been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; CPH, Copenhagen; VideoEx, Zurich; as well as at JAFF, FFD, and ARKIPEL. In 2021, he received the Video Production Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona.
Selected Filmography
2024 Tunggang Langgang; Tectonic Plates; 2023 Dear Shadow; My Old Friend; 2022 Terra Incognita; Reversal; 2021 Ghost Light; 2018 Edelweiss; Others or ‘Rust en Orde’; 2016 Ryoko Kaban
2024 Tunggang Langgang; Tectonic Plates; 2023 Dear Shadow; My Old Friend; 2022 Terra Incognita; Reversal; 2021 Ghost Light; 2018 Edelweiss; Others or ‘Rust en Orde’; 2016 Ryoko Kaban