Using archival footage from the European Union’s ban on all Indonesian airlines in 2005 and the series of aviation scandals plaguing Indonesia preceding it, along with family archives on VHS, Quantum Leap sees Angkasa perform the unreliable narrator embodied in a flight attendant. With her hair in a French twist and a classic kebaya uniform cinching her waist, the artist splits into two characters who speak different languages.
Ari Angkasa is an octo-modal artist (filmmaker, performer, director, writer, theorist, comedienne, impersonator, and fish) based in Naarm, Australia. Through her cross-disciplinary works, Ari investigates the entanglements between aesthetics and statecraft, confronting the sociopolitical distractions of individualism on freedom of expression.
Serena Arsletta is an actress, filmmaker, and designer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Serena was one of the founding members of Parcstar Assembly, an Indonesian filmmaking collective helmed by Julio Rionaldo and Fadhil Abhimantra.
Screening as part of Things and Tingling.
