Warung Fiksi

The title, genre, release, scriptwriter, director, producer, production and stars of 76 movies in 2008. Click here to download it freely.

Feel like writing good speculative fiction? This is for you, then. Founded in September 2000, Strange Horizons is a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction. The term “speculative fiction” refers to what is more commonly known as sci-fi, but which properly embraces science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, slipstream, and a host of sub-genres. They want:

• Stories that have some literary depth but aren’t boring.
• Styles that are unusual yet readable.
• Structures that balance inventiveness with traditional narrative.
• Characters we can care about.
• Settings and cultures that we don’t see all the time in speculative fiction.
• Stories that address political issues in complex and sensitive ways. [Read the rest of this entry...]

By Brahmanto Anindito

Story of O, Blue Velvet, Secretaire, and many more fictions already tell about BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) life. What about BDSM in real life? I’d been in a BDSM community as a researcher, I see it pretty similar with the depiction on fiction. Regardless the Safe-Sane-Consensual motto within BDSM community, there are three kinds of sadism according to A. Hesnard: criminal (as a psychopath), pervert (as in the novels of marquis de Sade), and moral sadism (as a hazing). If a sadomasochist becomes the first one, that means s/he commits a crime, because it’s usually without consensus among the doer and the victim. It is condemnable. In fiction, many antagonists have been characterized like that. But rarely the second (where the victim likely to be tortured). [Read the rest of this entry...]

By Rie Yanti Senjawan

Again, Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) holds a contest, this time for literary study. Pick up one of the literatures which published on last 10 years in Indonesia, analyze that within at least 20 pages (1.5 spaces) of A4. Send it in five copies to DKJ before September 30, 2009. I guess DKJ’s contest is highest rank in literary domain here. The prize is 61.5 million of rupiah at total.

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By Brahmanto Anindito

After hollow decades, finally Indonesia produced a well executed martial arts movie. Great! I have done with comedy-sex and horror genres here. Thanks to writer-director Gareth Huw Evans. Merantau is Indonesian traditional martial arts, pencak silat-based movie. Story set on Sumatra and Jakarta’s today, with Iko Uwais, a silat practitioner and newcomer in showbiz, as the main role. [Read the rest of this entry...]