Research Article
Behind the Pandemic Narrative of the Documentary "Diam & Dengarkan"
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.14-9-2021.2321424, author={Muhammad Bayu Widagdo}, title={Behind the Pandemic Narrative of the Documentary "Diam \& Dengarkan"}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Enquiries, ICISPE 2021, 14-15 September 2021, Semarang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICISPE}, year={2022}, month={9}, keywords={documentary pandemic semiotics diam \& dengarkan fatalism}, doi={10.4108/eai.14-9-2021.2321424} }- Muhammad Bayu Widagdo
Year: 2022
Behind the Pandemic Narrative of the Documentary "Diam & Dengarkan"
ICISPE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-9-2021.2321424
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic, which began to spread at the end of February 2020, has gradually changed the order of human life. Human mobility is limited, interaction rules are strictly regulated, health protocols are always updated, all are built on the pandemic narrative. Documentaries respond to this pandemic by presenting audiovisual narratives in the form of documentaries, one of which is entitled “Silence & Listen”. By using Roland Barthes’ semiotic analysis, this study aims to examine the pandemic narrative presented by the documentary. The results of the study show that the pandemic narrative in this documentary has a reflective tendency by highlighting a provocative storytelling structure. The narrative is by leading the audience’s understanding to realize that this pandemic is the result of human errors in thinking and acting. Since the beginning, they felt they could and had the right to acquire, control, monopolize the use, and then try to accumulate potential and separate themselves from their environment. However, in the connectedness of 6 chapters this documentary seems to imply a message of fatalism, that everything has happened and it is up to fate
