Sandangkamuka — A Fever Dream on Love, Skin, and the Earth Beneath It
Kalacemeti Pictures
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Sandangkamuka
A Fever Dream on Love, Skin, and the Earth Beneath It
2021 — Dieng, Wonosobo, Indonesia.
Sandangkamuka explores love as a metaphysical skin — not something we wear, but something that wears us. Through intuitive visual poetry and sonic hallucination, the film portrays desire not as romance, but as a sacred disorientation. The landscape breathes, the body aches, and language fails — leaving only sensation, contradiction, and sweat-soaked silence.
Director // Writer // Videographer // Editor // Music Director // Talent
Directing, Writing Storytelling, Filming, Research, Interview, Music Producing, Editing, Mixing & Mastering, Color Grading, Acting
Client
Kalacemeti Pictures — Independent Film Maker Foundation – Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia
Reference
Farid Nurul Hakim, S.Sn.
Producer – Official “Sandangkamuka” Fiction Cinema
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Role
I wrote, directed, shot, edited, scored, and performed in this experimental short. From concept to execution, the entire film was built through intuitive process — guided not by narrative convention, but by emotional texture and visual instinct.
Artistic Direction & Style
Built on raw feeling rather than structure, the film embraces Van Gogh’s philosophy: express first, justify never. Shot handheld with unpredictable rhythm, colors clash and blur like memory fragments. Sound is composed from field samples, whispered breath, ambient drones, and low-frequency pulses — a sensorial envelope to wrap the viewer inside the fever.
Performance & Character
The central figure is a gendruwo — not in the folkloric sense, but as a queer, crossdressed embodiment of desire’s excess. He/She/It haunts the landscape without words, expressing craving, estrangement, and silent ecstasy through gestures and stares.
Music & Audio
Music direction merges ambient drone, deconstructed gamelan, reversed breathing, and raw silence. Scoring was done instinctively — no BPM, no key, no tempo. Just pulses of longing, arranged like open wounds.
Tools & Techniques
- Visuals: DSLR + vintage lens for unpredictable flares
- Audio: Zoom field recorder, contact mic, breathing samples
- Edit: Free-cutting in Premiere with no storyboard — just moodboards and sweat
- Color grade: Manual tone-mapping based on intuition, not LUT
“Love has no form. It’s like a withdrawal that never ends. It never resolves. You don’t watch this to understand — you watch to go numb.”
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