This work is a scene design based on the Banteng Field riot, reconstructed from narratives and various pieces of information circulating in cyberspace. The riot was carried out by the Fajar Menyingsing group, a gang that later became one of the targets during the ‘Petrus killings’—an Indonesian term referring to the mysterious shootings that took place in 1983 in Semarang.
Missing Scene From Mysterious Shooter – #draft 4 (Adegan Yang Hilang Dari Petrus – #draft 4)
Experimental / 5 min / 2019 / Indonesia
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Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival | Kassel | 2019
Festival Film Dokumenter | Yogyakarta | 2019
Joyland Festival | Jakarta | 2019
Denpasar Documentary Film Festival | Bali | 2019
Nandur Serawung | Yogyakarta | 2019
Gulung Tukar – Jatim Biennale VIII | Tulungagung | 2019
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Gerobak Bioskop – Dhaka Art Summit | Dhaka | 2020
Ganesha Film Festival | Bandung | 2020
KINIKO Art Management | Bantul | 2021
Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize | Singapore | 2021 | 3rd winner in Moving Image category
Art Fair Philippines | online | 2021
PALAPA Screening Program | Hanoi & Bangkok | 2023
Glued & Screwed – WYSIWYG | Den Haag | 2023
TRAFIK Cinema | Bruhl | 2024
Just Play It! | Yokohama | 2024
Universitas Sanata Dharma | Yokohama | 2025
Moro-Moro Screening – Art Center Ongoing | Tokyo | 2025
Arief Budiman’s Missing scene from mysterious shooter – draft #4 is premised on the Petrus killings that occurred in Indonesia in the mid-1980s, the term Petrus stemming from the Indonesian phrase, penembak misterius, or mysterious shooter. The murders were a series of executions that took place between 1982 and 1985, with hundreds or thousands of criminals – the exact death toll is disputed – shot by undercover death squads, and their bodies left in public spaces as a warning to other criminal elements.
– Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize Jury
Arief Budiman 