Helmi Yusron

After his thesis defense, Topas was bombarded with lots of questions from his friends, and at the end of the day, he vented his discomfort on something strange.

A woman looks for traces of surveillance from the urban spaces around her, she uses a camera and takes pictures of things that she thinks are potential surveillance sites, but to understand more about what she is doing, she also positions herself as a surveillance by taking pictures of people, in the middle of her journey, the woman realizes that she is being followed by a man carrying a long lens camera.

A mother revisits her old family photographs, now damaged by floodwaters. As she sifts through the fading images, she and her son engage in occasional conversations about religion and marriage.

Our paths converge in Eskisehir, Turkey, for a reunion with a dear friend from Indonesia. As she cooked her family's traditional recipes, we explored the nuances of residing away from home, and the interplay of light and darkness in our lives.