17 000 Islands

The Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park was built under the totalitarian Suharto regime as a utopian symbol of idealized life on the country's 17,000 islands. The park has remained open and popular even after the fall of his corrupt militaristic regime in 1998, and remains a reminder of its propaganda to this day. The audience's interaction with the film (by manipulating the audiovisual material shot by the film crew) results in a deconstruction of and reflection upon this representation of an idealized culture. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)