Anggi Noen's Exploration of Stillness

Yosep Anggi Noen chose to shed light on Wiji Thukul's life as a fugitive. It was not difficult to select Anggi as Tempo's choice for director of the year.

Tempo

January 3, 2017

IT was very easy [for us] to select Yosep Anggi Noen as Indonesia's best director of 2016. Anggi's direction in the film Istirahatlah Kata-Kata (Solo, Solitude) is mature and effective in interpreting an episode in the life of artist-activist Wiji Thukul, a public figure who played a big part in Indonesia's reformasi struggle.

In the range of time available to choose from, from Thukul's birth in 1963 during trying times, up to his disappearance alon

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