GA-02976 2020 relevance B public
A Daughter's Memory: 1965 in Animation (Grace Leksana, Archipel 99, 2020)
A Daughter's Memory: 1965 in Animation (Grace Leksana, 2020)
Grace Leksana's review (Archipel 99, 2020) of the animated documentary A Daughter's Memory (2019, dir. Kartika Pratiwi), based on Svetlana Dayani Njoto's memories of detention with her mother and siblings after her father Njoto's arrest. Film review.
Ulasan Grace Leksana (Archipel 99, 2020) atas dokumenter animasi A Daughter's Memory (2019, sutr. Kartika Pratiwi), berdasar ingatan Svetlana Dayani Njoto tentang penahanan bersama ibu dan saudaranya setelah ayahnya Njoto ditangkap. Ulasan film.
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- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Leksana
- Document type
- journal article (film review / review essay in a journal dossier (OpenEdition PDF including the issue's front and back matter))
- Language
- English; French
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- France
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- OpenEdition · source link
- Access
- Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath's Chrome (see 'Download Log 2026-10-15.csv'); open access via OpenEdition Journals (https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/1667), text under CC BY-ND 4.0 as stated on PDF p. 1; no library licence. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Leksana, G. (2020). A daughter’s memory: 1965 in animation [Review of the film A Daughter’s Memory, by K. Pratiwi, Dir.]. Archipel, 99, 41–45. https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.1667
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism/Leksana (2020) - A Daughter's Memory, 1965 in Animation (Archipel 99).pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.888) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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