Rizaldi turns to the volcanic activity of Mount Merapi to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and nature. Through stories of volcanologists, sand miners, and mystics, the film depicts how humans interact with and are shaped by their natural environment. This blend of reality and fiction was showcased at MoMA, prompting deep reflections on the bond between nature and humanity.

The film is the first in a series that reconfigures and interrelates two parallel modes of inquiry into the nature of reality. Formatted as a Hanna-Barbera and early Disney animation short set in the distant future—moving images that format was frequently used as tools of science communication in the mid-20th century—it rehearses a conversation between two cosmologists about the presence of God in atoms.Mirage 0 merges physics with Malay-Indonesian Sufi metaphysics, depicting a dialogue between cosmologists as they ponder the existence of God within atoms, reinterpreting Western science through a pluralistic lens.

Fossilis, set against the backdrop of a southern tropical landscape buried in electronic waste, reimagines the past and illuminates the future’s technological legacy through a dreamlike sci-fi narrative. This film blurs the lines between digital and physical realms by using actual e-waste as artistic material.

Notes from Gog Magog delves into techno-horror, exploring the eerie connections between technology, economy, and spectral cultural elements, set in Korea and Indonesia.

In an alternative future of Indonesia, when nuclear technology reaches the point of generating an artificial sun for endless energy resources, a lazy philosopher Sajad Ali wandering around seeks a place to sleep. Told in a semi-essayistic approach, Sajad Ali reflects the dynamics of nuclear technology in the future, the politics of materiality through the search for minerals such as thorium in Indonesia, as well as the complexity of nuclear issue in the tropics and its tension with ecology, energy consumption, nation-state, and productivity.

May 5th, 1923. The Dutch East Indies government celebrated the opening of a new radio station in West Java. It was called Radio Malabar. In March 2020, the local Indonesian government plans to reactivate the station as a historical site and tourist attraction. Tellurian Drama imagines what would have happened in between : the vital role of mountain in history; colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology; and the invisible power of indigenous ancestral. Narrated based on the forgotten text written by a prominent pseudo-anthropologist Drs. Munarwan, Tellurian Drama problematizes the notion of decolonisation, geocentric technology, and historicity of communication