Alexandra Kumala

BIOGRAPHIE

Alexandra Kumala is an artist and filmmaker from Jakarta, Indonesia. Formerly based in New York, she was a recipient of the 2023 Queens Arts Fund, the 2022 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music & Theatre and the 2022 George Stoney Fellowship at The Flaherty. She is one half of the team behind Sugar Nutmeg, the long-form podcast focusing on Southeast Asia, named after the spices whose trade route shaped our world today. Her writing has appeared in literary journals and anthology books about Southeast Asia, including “A History of Photography in Indonesia,” published by Amsterdam University Press and Afterhours Books, shortlisted for the Historical Book Award at the Book Awards of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Previously, she worked in theatre and translation, both of which influence her filmmaking. Alexandra spent half her life in Jakarta and half her life in New York City, with stints in Seattle, Singapore, Bellevue, Lima, and London in between. Being a minority in all the places she has ever called home deeply shapes her work as an artist. Today, she makes films and writes essays about untranslatability and the constant shifting of borders, identities, and power dynamics.

FILMOGRAPHIE