×

MutiMusic's video: Filastine - Gendjer2

@Filastine - Gendjer2
From the new album £00T. Get it on iTunes or any other digital outlet : http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/loot/id502313051 or a CD by mail-order here: http://tinyurl.com/7xlygpk Thank you for sharing or tweeting this video. Comments welcome too. Music: Filastine (with Nova) Director/DOP/Editor: Astu Prasidya (aka Tooliq) Production and Concept: Grey Filastine & Nova With the Participation of: Taring Padi Funded: by a crowd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (description below borrowed from NPR's All Songs Considered) Filastine's adaptation of a controversial song "Genjer Genjer." Written by Muhammed Ari in 1943, the song's lyrics were about the poverty in Ari's home region of Banyuwangi. While the song's subject was just about a poor woman picking genjer (a flat-tasting river plant) to sell at the market, it quickly became used as a rallying song for the Indonesian Communist Party to decry Indonesia's economic inequality. After the New Order military coup of General Suharto took power in 1965, Ari was killed and the song banned. Anyone who was caught singing "Genjer Genjer" was seen as an enemy of the state, and today it's still taboo in many parts of Indonesia. Filastine collaborated with the singer Nova Ruth on "Gendjer2" and with the director Astu Prasidya on the video for the song. For both of these artists, personal experience intertwines with the song's political history. Filmed inside an ancient Javanese house, the video blends the traditional and the modern, taking the traditional art of wayang — a type of puppet theater that usually tells adaptations of folk stories — and mixes it with a look at the struggles found today. The characters portrayed aren't the heroes or demons found in wayang — rather they are soldiers and businessmen twisted to show the dangers of economic and political control - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Freedom For All"

6

1
MutiMusic
Subscribers
749
Total Post
210
Total Views
209.8K
Avg. Views
4K
View Profile
This video was published on 2012-05-09 04:10:18 GMT by @MutiMusic on Youtube. MutiMusic has total 749 subscribers on Youtube and has a total of 210 video.This video has received 6 Likes which are lower than the average likes that MutiMusic gets . @MutiMusic receives an average views of 4K per video on Youtube.This video has received 1 comments which are lower than the average comments that MutiMusic gets . Overall the views for this video was lower than the average for the profile.

Other post by @MutiMusic