Dini Adanurani is an independent film researcher, critic, and curator. She is fascinated by post/colonial narratives, mediated experiences, and the perpetual overwriting of the past with the present. Her practice engages with and reflects on existing works of cinema, visual arts, or small everyday narratives, experimenting with various mediums from text, moving image, to performance art.
With the archive study group Kultursinema, she did a research on the state-produced newsreel Gelora Indonesia and the traditional martial art film Harimau Tjampa (1953) between 2019 to 2021. She was involved in Apresiasi Film Indonesia (2023), a research project that maps the spread of film communities in Indonesia. She has selected films for ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. As a film writer, she has worked with various film publications and festivals such as MUBI Notebook, Variety, photogénie, Jurnal Footage, Aspek Rasio, Locarno Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
She is currently based in Tallinn to attend FilmMemory, an Erasmus Mundus MA on European Film Heritage, History, and Culture (a joint masters program between LUCA School of Arts Brussels, Universidade Lusofona Lisbon, IADT Dublin, and BFM Tallinn).