Katinka van Heeren
is member of the Indonesian Mediations Project that, as part of a larger KNAW Project of Indonesia in Transition, conducts research on media in a Post Suharto environment. She wrote her MA thesis at Leiden University comparing two Indonesian films embodying strategies and discourses of cultural re-traditionalization and de-traditionalization in the frame of modern Indonesian socio-political developments and identity policies. Affiliated to the NWS and Leiden University she currently is writing her PhD thesis on contemporary Indonesian film.
Past events
Film: Between Past and Present/ Diantara masa lalu dan masa sekarang
Old man Sastro Atmojo is still as militant as when he was a child. A memory of the independence fighters, between past and present, disillusionment and hope. An award winning short by Eddie Cahyono (Indonesia, 2001). With an introduction by Katinka van Heeren. Dutch spoken.
