Meta Ekologi

First Parisian screening of this film, made in 1979 by legendary Indonesian experimental filmmaker Gotot Prakosa (1955-2015).

”[Meta Ekologi] was made in 1979, and based on a performance by Sardono W. Kusumo and his group. We see them in a mud pool in a slum district of Jakarta, with the local people watching the performers who become entirely covered with mud. It’s a response to an attempt to enter into dialogue with the ecology of earth and water – humanity expressing its feelings through the body by trying to become one with the universe. It has references to farming peasants, working on the land and covered with mud. It’s a process of poeticization.