The Salubrious Monotony of a Living Dream

When life takes you round the bend, you keep rounding the bend until you get to where you came from. When who you are is where you have been and where you have been is where you're going to, what else can you be?

  • Azalia Muchransyah
    Director
    Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not A Death Sentence (2018), Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), Big Durian Big Apple (2018), Where Do Babies Come From? (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Azalia Muchransyah
    Writer
    Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not A Death Sentence (2018), Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), Big Durian Big Apple (2018), Where Do Babies Come From? (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Azalia Muchransyah
    Producer
    Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not A Death Sentence (2018), Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), Big Durian Big Apple (2018), Where Do Babies Come From? (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Adhi Anugroho
    Producer
    Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not A Death Sentence (2018), Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), Big Durian Big Apple (2018), Where Do Babies Come From? (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Adhi Anugroho
    Key Cast
    Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Azalia Muchransyah
    Editor
    Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not A Death Sentence (2018), Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), Big Durian Big Apple (2018), Where Do Babies Come From? (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Adhi Anugroho
    Music
    Blue Film (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), The Strength of A Woman (2019), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019)
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 8, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Indonesia
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Begadang Filmmaking Competition
    Denpasar, Bali
    Indonesia
    October 11, 2019
    World Premiere
    Nominee
Director Biography - Azalia Muchransyah

Azalia Muchransyah is a filmmaker, writer, and scholar from Indonesia who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Media Study at University at Buffalo (SUNY). She receives two Fulbright scholarships: the 2011 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant and the 2017 DIKTI-Funded Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship. She is a 2019 Social Impact Fellow at University at Buffalo (SUNY) and a 2019 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Diversity Scholar at Ithaca College. Her area of interest is affordances of activism and advocacy in media ecology, specifically in Indonesian prison settings. Her short films have been officially selected and screened in international festivals and academic conferences.

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Director Statement

After being a mother, my life as a filmmaker changed. I start to notice small things and appreciate the mundanity of everyday life. Made with simple 'homemade' aesthetics, this film is my exploration of this theme and how I celebrate the joy of monotony life.