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Reading is Sexy: What Mouly Surya Is Gonna Talk About Next

Considered by many as one the most promising filmmakers in Indonesia, Mouly Surya bursted into the screen with her directorial debut, “fiksi.” (2008) which immediately gained her respectable reputation nationally by winning 4 Piala Citra including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (co-written with Joko Anwar) as well as being recognized internationally with it’s world premiere held in 13th Busan International Film Festival. Mouly who obtained her BA in Media and Literature from Swinburne University, Melbourne and her MA in Film and Television from Bond University, Queensland followed his impressive debut this year with “What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love” (2013) that became the first Indonesian film to compete in Sundance Film Festival. She will continue to explore her distinctive approach in storytelling about social and culture with her next project called “The Fandom Diary” consisting of three sets of stories about three different fans of Japanese idols connected through the internet wire. Set to start filming this year, it will be set in Indonesia, Japan and US. Her strong literature background naturally influences her works: Mouly’s first film was an inversion of “Alice in Wonderland”; the title of her second film is a wordplay of Raymond Carver’s book; and here she reveals whose books she’d like to turn into films.

What book genre you usually read? What are your favorites?

I read a wide range of books, from academic, autobiagraphy and fiction. There are two fiction writers I particularly like, Haruki Murakami (“South of the Border, “West of the Sun”) and Jeffrey Eugenides (“Middlesex”). For autobiography, I like Gelsey Kirkland’s, an American ballerina, titled “Dancing on My Grave”. I can’t pick one among those books because each book is intriguing in it’s own way.

How do you make time to read?

Mostly when I travel. Ever since I switched my reading method to e-book with Kindle, purchasing them directly from Amazon, I carry it with me everyday. It’s very comfortable, there’s no need to carry two to three heavy books when I’m on the road. I try to finish at least one book per month.

What’s the most influential book you’ve ever read?

The most influential? Probably ones related with my job. “The Sequence Approach” by Paul Joseph Gulino, “The Writer’s Journey” by Christopher Vogler and “Directing Actors” by Judith Weston. The first two are academic books about screenplay writing and the third book is about directing. For fiction, I’d have to choose Indonesian literature book which I read during high school, “Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk.”

As a filmmaker, is there a book you’ve read you’d like to adapt into the big screen?

If I could, someday I’d really like to adapt Haruki Murakami’s books. There are some choices, like 1Q84 or Dance Dance Dance. . .But basically I’d be happy to do any book of him, haha.

  Interviewed by Ferinda Partiningrum. L - Article by Nicholas Kevin - Picture courtesy of Mouly Surya