CAN YOU HEAR THE OBJECTS SPEAK? in Rotterdam
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Can you hear the objects speak?Asian Movie NightWorkshop 18:30 / screening and Q&A 20:30 Idak-Idak-Idakby Kae Oktorina and christopher tym2026, Indonesia / the Netherlands, 45 minutes, Indonesian, Sasak and English w/ English subtitles Idak-Idak-Idak follows three generations of Sasak women, a daughter, her mother and her grandmother, and the treasures taken from Lombok by the Dutch in 1894. The film moves between Indonesia and the Netherlands, mixing full-spectrum cinematography with personal footage. In Sasak, "idak" means both heart and absence. Before the screening, Kae Oktorina and christopher tym host a workshop in which you imagine ways to embody the objects of the Lombok Treasure. It carries on the way the film itself was made. No experience needed, and you don’t have to be an artist. The workshop is participatory, so you take part rather than watch. There is room for ten people. You are welcome to bring two things. A memory of your mother or grandmother: a story, an image, a gesture, a phrase, or something that has simply stayed with you. And a small object you think of as a treasure of your own. It doesn’t have to be worth anything. Something inherited, found, made by someone you love, or an everyday object that holds a memory. Both are optional and you can join without bringing anything. A ticket to the workshop also gives you access to the film screening. The evening is part of Can you hear the objects speak?, a programme by Asian Movie Night and wysiwyg, which grew out of Beyond Provenance, a project initiated with Indeks (Bandung). It asks what happens if you treat looted heritage as living rather than as objects in a vitrine. Curated by LI Yuchen. The full programme runs at other venues too: asianmovienight.com Asian Movie Night is a diasporic film platform in the Netherlands, set up in response to how little space Asian work gets in Dutch cultural venues. wysiwyg is a platform for film and artists’ moving image based in The Hague, working with local…
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