Ali Satri Efendi

The Glebagan system was created to force farmers to rotate crops and convert some of their land from basic agricultural commodities to industrial raw materials. This system has changed the face of agriculture and shaped the sugar map in various regions in Indonesia. With psychogeographical documentary approach, the film shows the landscape of the sugar map in a village of Krembung region, tracing step by step the sugarcane plantations that occupy farmers' rice fields. It is an observation of a repeating cycle, interjected with past archival footage of sugarcane and people movements.

An intense recording of the profile of a rafter’s daily work in a nook on the edge of the Citarum river brings the camera to explore the corners of a location in an ecosystem. This recording has gradually revealed the picture of a natural and social landscape on that nook. The human social cycle and the natural cycle coexist and establish their poetry about a certain cycle of life in an ecosystem.

The Glebagan system was created to force farmers to rotate crops and convert some of their land from basic agricultural commodities to industrial raw materials. This system has changed the face of agriculture and shaped the sugar map in various regions in Indonesia. With psychogeographical documentary approach, the film shows the landscape of the sugar map in a village of Krembung region, tracing step by step the sugarcane plantations that occupy farmers' rice fields. It is an observation of a repeating cycle, interjected with past archival footage of sugarcane and people movements.

An intense recording of the profile of a rafter’s daily work in a nook on the edge of the Citarum river brings the camera to explore the corners of a location in an ecosystem. This recording has gradually revealed the picture of a natural and social landscape on that nook. The human social cycle and the natural cycle coexist and establish their poetry about a certain cycle of life in an ecosystem.