RAGAM MEDIA NETWORK
http://www.ragam.org/
"Cross Cultural Education with Multicultural Media"
Vision
The contribution of visual media is critically needed when Indonesian diversity is filled by violence, politics of hate, and ethnocentrism. In the digital era film, television, or internet are more and more accessible for all members of society, attracting them with a higher level of interaction. However, the biggest problem is that the visual media has been dominated by market and the ruling elites, both oriented on centralization of power and capital accumulation. Our vision is to develop visual media as public sphere that produces, strengthens, and criticizes public values. Visual media has to become channel for dialogue, to negotiate new values for recent problems. In multicultural society, the real problem is not how to be different but how can we live together in the differences. Public sphere should mediate the inter-relationship of various cultures and identities. Public sphere is the border as well as the trespass, the negotiation, translation and dialogue. Public sphere provide channels for the minorities for their rights to communicate and understood.
Program
Connexxcreen (Layar Dialog).www.connexxcreen.com
We introduce this method to connect communities with cultural gaps and stereotypes to meet and to have dialogues to get a multicultural understanding. Here, video and other visual medium has their role in social change. Connexxcreen is a project that integrally unites video production and its reception as popular cross-cultural learning process.
Rumah Visual (community video unit).
The aim is for developing community video for minority groups an various places. The last activity is to manage the community video workshop at Bali for 16 environment NGOs in Indonesia, co-organized with PPLH Bali and GEF SGP. The result of the workshop is the establishment of Indonesian Community Video Network (www.videokomunitas.com).
Ragam Pictures
The aim of this program is to produce and distribute ethnographic movies and other visual forms for cross-cultural learning. Nowadays we are focusing on the development of observation cinema for lessons-learned media of the dynamics of communities’ social changes and community development projects. One of the movie we produced is Lukas’ Moment that tells the story of entrepreneurship development of a young fisherman of Marind tribe at Merauke, Papua.
Link Workshop Video Connexxcreen CERMIN JERNIH DARI INONG “Video ya, Mbak? Jadi, kita akan buat film? Kita ini perempuan, hampir nggak ada perempuan Aceh yang pegang-pegang kamera keluyuran liputan.” “Hmmm… Bukankah memang sudah begitu... more
