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Riar Rizaldi, whose video essay Ghosts Like Us explores his fascination with Indonesian horror movies, looks at the history of Radio Malabar. On May 5, 1923, the Dutch East Indies government celebrated the opening of a new radio station in West Java, called Radio Malabar. In March 2020, the local Indonesian government planned to reactivate the station as a historical site and tourist attraction. Tellurian Drama imagines what would have happened in between: the vital role of mountains in history; colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology; and the invisible power of indigenous ancestry. With narration based on a forgotten text by a prominent pseudo-anthropologist, Drs. Munarwan, Tellurian Drama problematizes the notion of decolonization, geocentric technology, and historicity of communication. (Dir.: Riar Rizaldi, Indonesia, 2020, 26 min., Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles) Images courtesy of Riar Rizaldi |
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