Dini Adanurani is an independent film researcher and critic. Her writing practice attempt to dissect and reflect films, visual arts in general, or everyday experiences into a larger social context, sometimes expanding to installations, filmmaking, and performance art. Lately, she is fascinated by film histories in Indonesia, post/colonial narratives, and the perpetual overwriting of the past with the present.
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. 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 Heritage, History, and Culture), a mobility scheme that will split her soul between Brussels (LUCA Art School), Lisbon, Dublin, and Tallinn until 2026.