The Sole of the Flying Heron
Two drifters or musafirs, practicing the mystical branch of Islam called Kejawen, traverse Indonesia’s most bustling economic road in Java, covering thousands of kilometers. This road movie depicts their slow-paced survival amidst turbo-capitalistic Indonesia, showcasing an intriguing contrast in direction.
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Andrianus OetjoeDirector
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Andrianus OetjoeWriter
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Andrianus OetjoeProducer
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Andrianus OetjoeDirector of Photograpy
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Andrianus OetjoeEditor
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Adhitya DanielColorist
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:30 minutes
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Completion Date:March 29, 2024
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Production Budget:15,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Indonesia
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Country of Filming:Indonesia
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Language:Indonesian
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Shooting Format:Digital Mirrorless
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Tokyo Documentary Film FestivalTokyo
Japan
December 6, 2024
Visual Anthropology
Andrianus Oetjoe was born in Jakarta and trained as an engineer in Berlin. After study he went to West Papua to work as school teacher for the Indigenous Peoples where he discovered his passion for the photo journalism which led him to documentary film.He received a creative documentary training scholarship from Goethe Institut Indonesien at HFBK Hamburg and awarded with documentary research fellowship Grenzgänger from Robert Bosch Stiftung. His previous short documentary KAYU BESI (2022) was screened at DOK Leipzig.
The two main charachters are the follower of the minority Kejawen, a mystical branch of Islam in Indonesia which defined more on the inner development and self experience. I myself am from the Chinese minority ethnic and Confucian background in Moslem-majority Indonesia. For me doing this film is a process of learning about Indonesia ancient tradition though unfortunately I also recognize that it perhaps would slowly disappear. While in fact it is not well represented by the mainstream media. Therefore I decided to give the face and the voice of this tradition by capturing their silence struggle to survive which is strongly depicted by their slow ‘contrary’ movement on the high speed road of modernity of Java's nord coast.