| " ... Violence Against Fruits (3 min, 2000) attempts to express the filmmaker's thoughts and her personal experience about racism. The film features a Japanese fruit of Chinese origin, Diospyros Kaki, being slaughtered with a pocket knife in close-up shots, while two narrators, a man and a woman, discuss about the relationships between human and dogs off-screen. Explanation about the fruit and its history is printed as subtitles throughout the film."
Violence Against Fruits is what I feel towards, and remember of, May 1998. It doesn't mean, however, that nothing happened before and after that.
Violence Against Fruits is a conversational piece. In the making, I conversed with myself about the intricacy of racism that I have experienced in Indonesia.
I would like to keep Violence Against Fruits as it is; a conversational piece. From some screenings, I have been quite surprised by the wide range of reactions it created. The different interpretations people had expressed to me are just as varied as the many sides of racism. I also notice that this short film means more to people residing in Indonesia than to people of other background.
Feel free to interpret Violence Against Fruits in any way. Even for myself; I'm still discovering new little meaningful details in Violence Against Fruits as I was building this site.
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