Fatimah Rony

Everything in Between

Fatimah Rony

Abandoned by her mother when she was a baby, Rosa is obsessed with the old-style Hollywood movie star, Anna May Wong, who she fantasizes to be her mother. Raised in downtown Los Angeles by her “Uncle Otto”, an older queen and former hairdresser, Rosa’s deepest emotional relationships are with gay men, including her best friend Michael.

Chants of Lotus

Lasja Fauzia Susatyo, Upi Avianto

Rieke Dyah Pitaloka, Rachel Maryam

This is an omnibus film, directed by 4 females and consists of 4 stories about women.

Annah la Javanaise

Fatimah Rony

Imam Wahyudi

In 1893, a 13-year-old girl comes to work for French painter Paul Gauguin as his maid and model. They called her Annah la Javanaise. This is a reimagining of her story.

On Cannibalism

Fatimah Rony

King Kong meets the family photograph in this provocative experimental video exploring the West's insatiable appetite for native bodies in museums, world's fairs, and early cinema. Intertwining personal narrative about race and identity in the U.S. with layered footage, artifacts and video effects, ON CANNIBALISM looks back at anthropological truisms with outrage and irony.