The Official trailer of Parts of the Heart:
And I want to focus more on one man’s perspective, one man’s experience in dealing with being gay in a country like Indonesia. Any outside interference is mostly on how it affects a person life. But in ‘Parts of the Hearts’ the problems occur almost only within the private life of the gay characters.īecause the film is more about a personal story, a personal point of view. So being a gay in Indonesia means a lot of pressure and even harassment. There are a lot of anti gay movements in Indonesia recently. But then I thought it would be little bit too much. At one point I even considered making one version of Peter as a women. That’s why I didn’t make one clear Peter, and instead portrayed Peter as diversely as possible. Whoever: gay, lesbian, straight, in marriage or in a relationship, they have to solve their problem. Basically, the conflict, the emotional landmark, is not exclusive to one person. The reason is, that I wanted the basic message to be, that Peter could be anybody. I decided to make 8 different short films that combine into one larger story. So I picked 8 of the most important moments of my life that I felt pretty much define who I am now. So I thought that might be a great subject for a film. How I perceive the world is pretty much defined by who I fell in love with, how my heart was broken, sort of my daily life. It was the most important moment in my life and made me realize that happiness, love, heartbreak, and how I feel about who I am now, are shaped by incidents regarding love and romance. It got me thinking about a lot of things. Well, basically it started when I got married in 2010. How did you come to the idea of making your new film, ‘Parts of the Heart’ based on a biography of yourself? We talked with him about his last, daring story, that touches upon the in Indonesia still controversial subject of homosexuality. It’s not the first time either that Agusta checked in at the Rotterdam Film Festival, as his previous films ‘Kado Hari Jadi’ (The Anniversary Gift) (2008) and ‘At the Very Bottom of Everything (2010), were also featured at this acclaimed yearly film festival. His new film ‘Parts of the Heart’ is, just as his previous work ‘At the Very Bottom of Everything’ (about bi-polar disorder), deeply personal and in parts autobiographical. Born in Jakarta in 1980, Agusta studied film in the USA, before returning to Indonesia in 2003.
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