attention at tension

The tension of going through a pandemic shifts my attention and creates anxiety within me. As many questions bubble up in my mind, I reflect on what I have been going through by creating a journal entry in the hope of finding answers.

  • 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), Concrete Jungle (2020), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • 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), Concrete Jungle (2020), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • 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), Concrete Jungle (2020), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • 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), Concrete Jungle (2020), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • Azalia Muchransyah
    Key Cast
    "Azalia"
    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), Concrete Jungle (2020), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • Abimana Anugroho
    Key Cast
    "Bima"
    the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • Anita Muchransyah
    Key Cast
    "Grandmi"
  • Muchransyah Achmad
    Key Cast
    "Grandpi"
  • Adhi Anugroho
    Key Cast
    "Adhi"
    Alone, Together (2018), Blue Film (2018), The Banana Manifesto (2018), TAMU (2018), the Blissful Aloofness of Childcare (2019), Bearddemic (2020), WFH (2020)
  • Tri Indah Lestari
    Key Cast
    "Yang Tie"
  • Dwiana Poetra
    Key Cast
    "Yang Kung"
  • M. Hasrialdy Muchransyah
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 19, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Indonesia
  • Country of Filming:
    Indonesia, United States
  • Language:
    English, Indonesian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Festival international Signes de Nuit
    Bangkok
    Thailand
    July 26, 2020
    World Premiere
    Official Competition
  • DOCUTAH
    St. George, UT
    United States
    November 2, 2020
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Azalia Muchransyah

Azalia Muchransyah is a filmmaker, writer, and scholar from Indonesia. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, funded by the 2017 DIKTI Fulbright Scholarship. In 2019 she became a Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar, a Social Impact Fellow at University at Buffalo, and a Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Diversity Scholar at Ithaca College. Her research is on activist media, specifically for people living with HIV 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

I made this film as a way to reflect what I have been feeling while going through the COVID-19 pandemic in self-isolation with my husband and my baby in Buffalo, NY, USA, while my whole family is self-isolating in Jakarta, Indonesia.