In recent years, the Dutch government has launched a series of critical inquiries into the ethics of restitution—addressing looted artifacts and even human remains held in the national collection. Moving beyond straightforward provenance tracing, these investigations have raised more fundamental, open-ended questions about value, ownership, and justice.
Derived from
Beyond Provenance, a transnational collaboration between art collective
Indeks from Bandung and screening platform
wysiwyg from The Hague, this interdisciplinary film program
Can you hear the objects speak? by Asian Movie Night and wysiwyg, seeks to reclaim the living worlds of displaced heritage. Rather than focusing solely on material significance, a logic that often mirrored colonial frameworks of preservation, the program foregrounds the emotional, cultural, spiritual, and communal values these objects hold for the communities from which they were taken, as a gateway to understand the animist and relational cosmopraxis shared by many Indigenous nations in the present day Indonesia.
Through film, conversation, and performance, we will listen to the voices of ancestral beings held hostage in museums, mineral stones extracted for AI technology, as well as the ghostly presence in the streets of Amsterdam built by looted wealth. In doing so, it challenges the Western ontological impulse to turn living beings into static objects, and instead reawakens a sense of liveness, agency, and wisdom in the beings we connect with, thus learning different ways of relating—ways that may help us not only rethink restitution, but also reimagine worlds and futures beyond the crisis we are facing.
Panel Talk
After the screening at
Focus, there will be a panel talk with art historian and researcher Danielle Hofmans, filmmakers Hattie Wade and Kae Oktorina, and Ruben Verkuylen from wysiwyg, moderated by LI Yuchen.
The discussion will expand from the films we have watched into the overarching theme of colonial history, hidden narratives, displaced ways of living and restitution and justice, connecting to the recent
Exhibition Bakudengar in Arnhem Museum and the research project
Beyond Provenance.
SCHEDULE
PROGRAM of Filmhuis Den Haag
Wednesday 30.09.2026
19:00 - 20:20 Screening of Shorts Program
19:00 - 20:30 Workshop
Idak-Idak-Idak
21:00 - 21:50 Screening
Idak-Idak-Idak
TICKETS
€12.50 (student card €5.00)
Cineville card free
RSVP to workshop
PROGRAM of
Focus, Arnhem
Sunday 04.10.2026
15:00 - 16:20 Screening of Shorts Program
16:40 - 17:15 Panel Discussion with Daniel Hofmans, Kae Oktorina and Hattie Wade, moderated by LI Yuchen
TICKETS
€12.00 (Student
€8.50)
Cineville card free
PROGRAM of WORM Rotterdam
Wednesday 07.10.2026
18:30 - 19:45 Workshop
Idak-Idak-Idak
20:30 - 21:20 Screening of
Idak-Idak-Idak
21:20 - 21:45 Q&A
TICKETS
€10.00 Screening
€12.50 Workshop + Screening
Cineville card free Screening
PROGRAM of Cavia Amsterdam
Friday 09.10.2026
18:30 - 19:45
WorkshopIdak-Idak-Idak
19:45 - 21:00 Dinner
21:00 - 21:45 Screening of Idak-Idak-Idak
22:00 - 22:30 Performance
TICKETS
€ 10.00 for workshop, screenig and performance
€ 7.00 for screening and performance
€ 3.00 Cineville for
screening and performance
PROGRAM of De Uiktlijk Amsterdam
Thursday 15.10.2026
21:00 - 22:20 Screening of Shorts Program
TICKETS
€13.50 (Student
€10.00)
Cineville card free
ABOUT
wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) is a platform for anyone interested in expanding their horizons in film and art. Dedicated to advancing the position and interconnectedness of artists’ moving image in the Netherlands, we focus on local communities while remaining closely engaged with international and recent historical developments in film. Through consistent and playful programming, we aim to facilitate meaningful exchanges between visitors, makers, and the industry.
Indeks is a curatorial platform that cultivates dialogues and promotes knowledge exchange through artistic activities. Our programs span various approaches, from the library and crowd-sourced archive to exhibitions, residencies, and film and moving image programs. Previously, Indeks was involved in projects and presentations with the British Council, the Japan Foundation, Goethe-Institut, Frame Finland, Asia Culture Center (ACC) Gwangju, Museum MACAN Jakarta, Asia Art Archive, and Para Site Hong Kong.
Beyond Provenance
is a transnational film collaboration between art collective Indeks from Bandung and screening platform wysiwyg from The Hague. The project reacts to the Dutch government's recent intent (2023) of giving back looted objects to Indonesia. This transnational initiative explores how film and collaboration can reassess narratives around restitution.
SpeakersKae Oktorina is an Indonesian filmmaker and visual artist working across film, photography, installation, and moving image. Her practice grows from everyday life, personal memories, and the experiences of her surroundings.
She is interested in how ordinary things can hold memories and how personal experiences can shape the way we perceive images, objects, and our surroundings. Her work often begins with simple observations and explorations of things she encounters or uses in everyday life. Color and visual perception are also important elements in her practice.
Alongside filmmaking, Kae has developed a strong practice in installation, bringing together images, objects, and spaces to create different ways of experiencing memory
and everyday moments.
Danielle Hofmans is an independent art historian, researcher, and art writer based in Berlin. She has a background in modern and contemporary art and works with visual artists on a long-term basis. Her interdisciplinary approach and core interests center on critical history, decolonial narratives, and activist practices.
She is also a reviewer for art magazine De Witte Raaf.
Hattie Wade is a research-based artist and filmmaker. Her practice stems from an interest in the dissemination of information, and a desire to counteract harmful dominant social and institutional narratives. She is interested in how past institutional violences are reproduced through legal and legislative frameworks, heritage protection, the subtle permeation of these narratives through society. She critically researches, dismantles, and rebuilds to make tangible that which is not, taking the form of digital, video and spatial work.
Ruben Verkuylen (he/him) is an independent graphic designer, tutor, musician and co-founder of film platform wysiwyg. With both a personal and professional interest, he explores how format and collaboration can amplify one another. Always moving in and between various fields in the culture industry, he feels strongly attracted to sound and moving image in particular. For the Beyond Provenance project, Ruben and Rizki Lazuardi serve as co-producers. They focused on creating a supportive system in which the artists could collaborate, research, and create work centered on these restituted objects.
Curated by LI Yuchen and wysiwyg
LI Yuchen (1991) is a mother, an artist, a cultural organizer and a community builder. Her interdisciplinary practice traces migration, identity and decolonial healing, asking what it means to belong beyond divides of skin and passports. Rejecting the singular story of 'progress,' she uses art to create encounters that open toward plural worlds and renewed kinship with Earth.
With a background in Biology, Fine Arts and Theater, her work, spanning video, installation, performance and collaborative processes, has been presented internationally at institutions including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Casco Art Institute Utrecht and TarraWarra Museum Australia. LI is co-founder of diasporic film initiative Asian Movie Night and the performance collective Weaving Realities, as well as a member of The Pluriversity Weavers to relearn Earth knowledges with Iku communities from Gonawindua.
The edition is especially supported by Het Nieuw Instituut
Film + workshop
Idak-Idak-Idak
Kae Oktorina and christopher tym | 2026 | Indonesia, the Netherlands | 45’ | Indonesian, Sasak, English w/ English subtitles
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'Idak-Idak-Idak' is a hybrid-documentary relating the stolen Lombok Treasures with the Sasak diaspora through three generations of women: a daughter, her mother, and her grandmother. Blending full-spectrum cinematography with personal footage, this film moves between Indonesia and the Netherlands to examine colonial legacies, displacement and healing the heart of home. In Sasak, "Idak" can be interpreted as both “heart” and “absence”, becoming a container for memory, loss, and the unseen layers of the self between generations.
Participatory Workshops
Three interactive workshops with screenings led by artists Kae Oktorina and christopher tym will be held at community cinema
Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam and radical communal space
WORM in Rotterdam, as well as the city’s film talent hub
Filmhuis Den Haag. The artists will facilitate experimental, participatory workshops in which audiences co-create the film program by imagining ways to embody the objects of the “Lombok Treasure,” as a continuation of the making of the film ‘Idak-Idak-Idak’.
Participants are encouraged to bring:
- A memory of your mother or grandmother. This could be a story, an image, a gesture, a phrase, or simply a memory that has stayed with you.
- A small object that you consider a kind of personal “treasure”, it doesn’t need to be valuable. It could be something inherited, found, made by someone you love, or simply an ordinary object that carries a meaningful memory.
However, both are optional, and you can still join the workshop without bringing anything.
Shorts Programme
Dear Shadow, My Old Friend (Sihir Kamar Gelap)
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno | 2023 | Indonesia, Netherlands | 13’ | Indonesian w/ English subs
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A phone call from within a dream recalls encounters with shadows in a photographic darkroom. Celluloid fragments open onto inherited memories, blurring personal and collective memory. The film becomes a meditation on displacement, history, home, and the echoes that persist across generations.
The Stone That Remembers (Durga Mahisasuramardini)
Diyantini Adeline (developed in collaboration with Vladimir Vidanovski) | 2026 | Indonesia | 14’
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The Stone That Remembers interprets the Durga Mahisasuramardini - statue’s journey from its home, the Singhasari Temple, to the hands of colonizers, and various museums. The film follows the patriarchal displacement of a woman that represents the Durga, exploring the parallels between the fate of the statue and many women today.
Sharp Objects (Keris Klungkung)
Taufiqurrahman Kifu and Hattie Wade | 2026 | Indonesia, the Netherlands | 16’ | Indonesian and English w/ English subs
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Sharp Objects follows the forgotten story of the Klungkung keris back to it’s origins and to its post-colonial relevance to Bali today, tracing the looting of the keris to modern-day tourism in Bali. The film juxtaposes the ‘knowledge’ of colonial archives against community-based knowledge and mythology, convoluting the understanding of what is preserved, what is dead and what is lost.
Arahmaiani:
Between the Mountain and the Sea
ACT 1: River elegy
Performance by Arahmaiani
Feisal, directed by Andrea and Peter Hylands | 2014 | Indonesia, Australia, India | 11’ | English, Indonesian
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Arahmaiani: Between the Mountain and the Sea is a 3-act performance art documentary produced by Creative Cowboy Films featuring prominent Indonesian multidisciplinary artist Arahmaiani Feisal.
The documentary text and video recordings outline a philosophy rooted in ancient Indonesian cultural heritage (drawing from Lantara, ancient Mataram, and Islamic Mataram philosophies). The title represents a core thesis: human beings are creators existing between the earth's natural structures, but they are also the primary drivers of its disruption and destruction.
Kasiterit
Riar Rizaldi | 2019 | Indonesia | 18’ | Indonesian w/ English subs
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One-third of the global tin supply is extracted from Bangka island in Indonesia. Tin is the most impacted mineral by the upcoming technological development, which includes artificial intelligence and technology for renewable energy. Natasha is a solar-powered A.I. voice, and in this film, they trace their genealogy and the truth of their origin; from the capital liquidity to labour dynamic. With their feminised voice—as quite often performed by other AI-powered voice assistants produced by tech-companies, Natasha narrates the emergence of tin in Bangka island and their existence from the perspective of tropical anthropology of nature, value theory, philosophy of time, genetic mutation, geopolitics, and automation.
Performance
The Magnolia Grows at Night
Francisca Angela
