Timoteus Anggawan Kusno

In the chaotic aftermath of Indonesia's dictatorship collapse, researchers discover a forgotten archive revealing a covert military project that manipulated dreams and memories.

Amid the mass hysteria over the killings of alleged sorcerers following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1999, a group of researchers discovers a sack of mysterious documents. As they sift through its contents—unsettling reports, enigmatic photographs, and fragmented recordings—they gradually piece together a hidden story: a secretive military project in which rural children were taken and subjected to covert experiments and indoctrination. Drawing from magical realism and mysticism, Kusno’s fiction utilises a blend of formats—including Super 8mm, Hi8, Video8, digital 35mm, and AI-generated images trained on historical and family photo archives—to speculate on the blind spots of Indonesia’s turbulent history.