As the Sprouts Grow

2020 29 min

Overview

The efforts of Silvester, an artist who is also a civil servant at the East Flores Regency Tourism Office, in taking part in a cultural festival in his area, Lewolema, Indonesia. The Lewolema indigenous people for almost half a century have not recognized their space for cultural expression. Festivals, he believes, are celebrations where cultural egalitarian spaces are recreated. This film also portrays how to place artistic work in an effort to maintain heritage and traditions with tourism which has a different way.