Ep.10 Reality Sandwich: Jogja Chronicles

Title: Ep.10 Reality Sandwich: Jogja Chronicles
Production Year: 2025
Runtime: 21:16
Director: Ho Bin Kim
Starring: Wok the Rock, Vandy Rizaldi, Arief Budiman, Eris, Amal Purnama
Drone: Kazumi

Synopsis:

Reality Sandwich is an ongoing, place-responsive, subaltern video series that unfolds through performative encounters with artists across diverse geographies. Inspired by absurdist gestures and relational practices, each episode begins with a single question—“What does a Reality Sandwich mean to you?”—and evolves through unscripted, daylong collaborations with local practitioners. Filmed in cities such as New York, Gwangju, Shanghai, Bacolod, Seoul, Rotterdam, Jogja, Kawasaki, and Riyadh the series resists conventional documentary structure, favoring instead a poetics of slowness, improvisation, and affective entanglement.

In Yogyakarta, Wok the Rock calls out, “Reality Sandwich!” — a signal that sets a quiet chain of events into motion. Four individuals hear the call and arrive at a table, where four aging recording devices await them: an old iPhone, a worn MacBook, an action cam, and a dusty camcorder. Each person picks one up and embarks on a personal journey to answer a shared question: What is a reality sandwich?

Armed with the iPhone, Vandy wanders into Jogja’s bustling city center, striking up conversations with strangers about passersby, politics, and presence. Arief, using the MacBook, reflects on Korean writers, live-streaming himself via Omegle while exploring a local cave. With the action cam, Eris sets out to find a bowl of noodles — and perhaps something sacred — as he circles the city in search of a temple. Amal, guided by the camcorder, heads to the beach, revisiting memories of a recently departed friend.

A layered portrait unfolds — at once playful and meditative — where each recording becomes a fragment of Jogja’s collective subconscious.