NOWNESS ASIA x Potato Head Film Series - Program #1 & Panel Discussion

Dani Huda, born in Bandung in 1995, is a multidisciplinary Indonesian artist working across film, visual, and sound art. His work explores themes of spirituality, mysticism, meditation, and the human connection to nature. He began his career as a fashion photographer and expanded his practice internationally in 2014, directing and producing films, music videos, and audiovisual performances. He has received both national and international recognition as a director and producer, underscoring his impact on contemporary media art.

Marlowe Bandem is a creativepreneur working at the intersection of microfinance and cultural advancement, with a strong focus on community engagement and international collaboration. He is the cofounder of Bali 1928 Archives, a pioneering initiative to repatriate and disseminate Bali’s audiovisual heritage. He is also involved in Quantum Temple, a platform dedicated to safeguarding cultural heritage through blockchain technology. Marlowe currently serves as an Advisor to SAKA Museum, recently named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Famous Places of 2024.

Natasha Tontey is Minahasan artist based in Yogyakarta. Her artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding ‘manufactured fear.’ In her practice, she observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major and established institutions, but a subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings.

Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. His artistic practice focuses mostly on the relationship between science, technology, labour, and nature, worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibility of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as Centre Pompidou Paris (2021), Museum of Modern Art (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Istanbul Biennial (2023), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Biennale Jogja (2021), National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. In addition, recent solo exhibitions and focus programs of his works had been held at Gasworks London (2024), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London (2024), Z33 Hasselt (2024), Centre de la photographie Genève (2023), and Batalha Centro de Cinema Porto (2023) amongst others.

Rizky Rahad (he/him) is an Indonesian filmmaker, programmer, and ethnographer whose work explores radical, often queer, aesthetics as a means to escape regimes of control and cultivate new forms of living otherwise. Currently co-running queer cinema collective QAMERAD in Bali, Rizky’s latest film H-O-R chronicles survivors of anti-trans violence escaping state surveillance to re-stage their image, while his latest book QUEERS SHOOT BACK! imagines a liberatory queer cinema beyond the limits of neoliberal visibility politics. Rizky was selected for the 2024 British Council’s Connection through Culture Grant, 2021 Chevening Scholarship and 2019 Berlinale Talents; his work has been screened at RAI Film Festival, Queer East, and Fringe! Film and Arts Fest.