The short documentary covers part of the vibrant Bandung Punk Scene in 2023. Three bands, three full songs and some behind-the-scenes-material. It was the circumstances (screendance and curatorial) that took Berg Duo (Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg) to Indonesia.

In addition, we allocated two half days to the Punk scene in Bandung. We had promised to provide some material from Indonesia to a documentary being made by Tomas Haglund about Anti Cimex. For this we had two days.

In addition to the material we collected for the Gothenburg-based director, we ended up with a material being more of a personal exploration of the punk scene, and decided to do a short documentary of our own. Our quest was to search for the imprint of the Swedish punk group Anti Cimex in today’s Indonesian punk scene from the point of view of Skånberg’s performance persona. The project is made in cinéma-vérité tradition. …

FAKK THE SISTEM is a stand alone 16 min documentary built on a personal exploration of the traces of Anti Cimex primarily in Bandung, hence contacts were generated with Punks visiting the city from Borneo, Jakarta and Sumatra. Hallberg and Skånberg are curious about the state of mind of resistance and freedom fight in Indonesia. This put in perspective with the conditions of the Swedish government supported rehearsal spaces for young bands in the 1990s is something the artists reflect over. How is this linked to forming a youth that is engaged with the construction of present and future societal systems? FAKK THE SISTEM is not only a fan movie, or a legacy movie of Anti Cimex. It is also a brief insight to what the Bandung punk scene looks like in 2023.

”Punk in Indonesia has often been described as a spectacular performance of disorder and resistance, a youthful style that posed a disruptive challenge to the authoritarian hierarchy and discipline of the New Order regime. The punk scene in Bandung has developed in the context of what is often referred to as ‘post-authoritarian’ Indonesia. Punk gives another historical narrative of the development of urban communities, and, while remaining a minority, is highly visible among urban Indonesian youth lifestyles.” FRANS ARI PRASETYO

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About Sudio BuJi

“Studio BuJi is a non-profit organization, founded in 2008, active in the field of arts, music, film, texts and dance. Studio BuJi exists and makes art allover the world. The word BuJi is a Swedish game with kanji, meaning dance + temple. Dancetemple. In collaboration with Japanese colleagues, Skånberg chose Bu 舞 which means dance (slow dance) and Ji 寺 which means temple. Since BuJi has no fixed place, many of Skånberg’s colleagues talked about the similarities between touring performances and the 12th-century Japanese musicians and dancers, nuns and monks who performed educational sutras using dance and music in new and experimental ways. Studio BuJi is engaged in contemporary art, dance and contemporary music, however it is not a Buddhist sect.” Read more here.

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