By Design | When Decisions Become Disasters

Описание: By Design adalah film pendek berbasis performa yang dibuat sebagai respons atas rangkaian bencana ekologis yang terjadi di Sumatera pada akhir 2025. Berlatar lanskap pascabanjir, film ini mengikuti satu tubuh yang bergerak di antara tepian sungai yang rusak, pohon-pohon tumbang, dan jejak yang ditinggalkan air.

Melalui fragmen audio arsip—pidato politik dan rekaman warga saat bencana—film ini menggeser banjir dari sekadar peristiwa alam menjadi hasil dari keputusan tentang tanah, air, dan ruang hidup, serta bagaimana tanggung jawab tersebut sulit dilacak hingga tak pernah benar-benar dihadapi.

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By Design is a short performance-based film made in response to a series of ecological disasters that occurred in Sumatra in late 2025. Set in a post-flood landscape, the film follows a solitary body moving through damaged riverbanks, uprooted trees, and the traces left by water.

Through fragments of archival audio—political speeches and recordings made by residents during the disaster—the film shifts the flood from a purely natural event to the outcome of decisions over land, water, and living space, revealing how responsibility becomes difficult to trace and is never fully confronted.