Dini Adanurani is an independent film researcher and critic. Fascinated by film histories in Indonesia and everyday narratives, her writing practice also expands to installations, videomaking, and 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. In 2023, she was involved in Apresiasi Film Indonesia, a research program on film collectives in Indonesia initiated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. She was also a part of the selection team for ARKIPEL 2023 – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival.
She is an alumni of Locarno Critics Academy 2022. Her article “Kasih yang Politis dalam You and I“ (Politics of Care in You and I) was one of the fifteen works of film critique to be considered as the nominee of Best Film Critique category in Festival Film Indonesia 2021. Her writings attempt to dissect and reflect films, visual arts in general, or everyday experiences into a larger social context. Recurring themes in her works are subjectivity, the formation of meaning, and small histories. More on her works here.
She graduated from Universitas Indonesia with a bachelor’s degree on Philosophy. Currently, she is pursuing an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters degree, FilmMemory (European Film History, Culture, and Heritage), and will be based between Brussels, Lisbon, and Dublin until 2026.