Arief Budiman is an artist and filmmaker based in Yogyakarta. He often uses moving images and media art in his work. In recent years, Arief’s artistic practice has been closely linked to the internet, archives, and collective memory related to the history of violence of Indonesia. According to him, archives and technology are some instruments that can open up other possibilities in reading past events. Through this instrument, Arief created an alternative history to the established narrative and created a counter-narrative through the memories of people who had been absent and taboo to talk about.

In 2023, Arief won the award for Best Short Documentary at the Indonesian Film Festival, and in 2021, he received the Julius Baer – Next Generation Art Prize in Singapore in the Moving Image category. He is currently a member of two active collectives in the art and film world, MES 56 and Piring Tirbing. Arief’s works have been exhibited internationally, and he has participated in several residency programs, including Miro Center Gwangju & Artspace House (2024), Koganecho AIR (2024), Art Center Ongoing AIR (2024), Norient Festival (2024), Sharjah Film Platform 6 (2023), Biennale Jogja XVI Equator #6 (2021), Art Fair Philippines (2021), “Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations” at ISCP – New York (2020), “Gerobak Cinema” at the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020), Arkipel – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival for “Bromocorah” (2019), the 36th Kassel Film and Video Documentary Festival (2019), Documentary Film Festival “Docs Docs” (2019), V Nodo Caracas Video Festival – Barcelona (2019), Indonesia Neataudio Festival 3.0 (2018), and “The Worldwide Exhibition” at Vieniti4/Siete Galeria – Costa Rica (2017), among others.

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