Suwarto, Dyna
(2024)
Developing local film production in Indonesia: tactical hustling among Yogyakarta film practitioners, 2000-2019.
PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Abstract
Indonesia’s political reformation of 1998 and afterwards, resulted not only in the end of President Suharto’s decades of authoritarian rule, but also stimulated rapid growth and cultural contestation within the country’s film industry. Diverse film cultures proliferated throughout the archipelagic nation. One of the most important sites of this cultural contestation through film emerged in the Special Region of Yogyakarta Province. While local film culture in Yogyakarta has a history dating from the 1940s, the period between 2000-2019 was a key period of transformation, and saw the development of a distinct production culture where dynamics of amateurism and professionalism, informality and formality, collaboration and creative precarity, defined film practice.
This thesis uses an intrinsic case study method to investigate critical conditions and dynamics that have shaped Yogyakarta film culture among local filmmakers in the post-reformation period. Specifically, it uses the lens of ‘hustle culture’ to investigate conditions of local production practice, the work of local film companies (Fourcolors Films, Lima Enam Films, and Bosan Berisik Lab), and the development of a local film festival, Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, as a ‘hustle space’ for Yogyakarta’s growing regional and national film status. From a critical perspective, the thesis reveals how local film industries can be shaped by distinct and specific (informal) production cultures, elucidating how, in the case of Yogyakarta, a provincial film culture emerges, develops, and sustains into a vibrant film site in the context of rapid changes in the national social, economic, and political landscape, hand in hand with shifts in global film culture.
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