Purwoko Ajie
Purwoko Ajie atau yang lebih dikenal Puralexdanu Patjingsung lahir di Ciamis, Jawa Barat, 13 Oktober 1995. Ia menempuh pendidikan Program Studi Televisi dan Film sejak tahun 2015-2019 di Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Surakarta. Saat ini sedang melanjutkan studi Pascasarjananya di Program Studi Kajian Budaya, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta sejak 2022. Semasa kuliah lebih aktif pada dunia kepenulisan, baik buku independen, naskah film dan jurnal kajian budaya khususnya pada film (link Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I6nkRJIAAAAJ&hl=id&oi=ao).
Buku pertama yang ditulis adalah novel dari kisah pribadinya, seperti “Cinta Piramida” (2015) dan “From Something To Nothing” (2018), terbit secara independen. Ia menjadi salah satu penulis dalam buku tentang film berjudul “30 Film Indonesia Terlaris 2002-2018” yang dipublikasikan secara kolektif oleh Montase Press. Beberapa jurnal ilmiah juga telah ditulis dan dipublikasikan, baik di jurnal nasional dan internasional.
Dia sesekali juga aktif dalam produksi film pendek fiksi dan dokumenter. Mencintai dunia film sejak kanak-kanak, film pertamanya dibuat saat masih duduk di Sekolah Menengah Pertama tahun 2009 berjudul “Salah Pelet”. Tahun 2016, bersama dengan rekan sekampusnya, ia membuat film pendek berjudul “Dakoen Doerang (Past & Now)”. Film ini menjadi kali pertama yang menghantarkannya ke festival film international pada program World Cinema, International Children Film Festival 2018 di India. Kemudian di awal 2018 juga memproduksi film Dokumenter bertujudul “Teguh Between The Collapse of Gemstone” dan di tahun yang sama diapresiasi pula di berbagai festival international. Kini ia terus fokus belajar membuat naskah, membuat film-film pendek dan fokus pada kajian budaya yang membahas seputar film.
Selain dunia film ia juga menekuni dunia IT. Dengan berbekal kemampuannya ia beberapa kali menjadi IT Staff di sejumlah website ternama. Sekarang aktif mengelola dan menulis di website mOntasefilm.com, montase.org dan mengembangkan aplikasi mOntasefilm berbasis android (difakumkan sementara) sebagai aplikasi komunitas film pertama di Indonesia.
Purwoko Ajie or better known as Puralexdanu Patjingsung was born in Ciamis, West Java, on October 13, 1995. He studied at the Television and Film Study Program from 2015-2019 at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Surakarta. He has continued his Postgraduate studies at the Cultural Studies Program, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, since 2022. During college, he was more active in the world of writing, both independent books, film scripts and cultural studies journals, especially films (Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I6nkRJIAAAAJ&hl=id&oi=ao).
The first books he wrote were novels based on his personal stories, such as “Cinta Piramida” (2015) and “From Something To Nothing” (2018), published independently. He became one of the authors of a book about films entitled “30 Film Indonesia Terlaris 2002-2018”, published collectively by Montase Press. Several scientific journals have also been written and published in national and international journals.
He is also occasionally active in the production of short fiction and documentaries. He has loved the world of film since childhood; his first film was made in junior high school in 2009, entitled “Salah Pelet”. In 2016, with his university colleagues, he made a short film entitled “Dakoen Doerang (Past & Now)”. This film is the first time it has been brought to an international film festival in the World Cinema, International Children Film Festival 2018 in India. Then in early 2018, he also produced a documentary entitled “Teguh Between The Collapse of Gemstone”, and in the same year, it was also appreciated at various international festivals. Now he continues to focus on learning to write scripts, make short films and focus on cultural studies that discuss films.
Apart from the world of film, he also pursues the world of IT. Armed with his skills, he several times became an IT staff at several well-known websites. Currently actively managing and writing on the mOntasefilm.com website, montase.org and developing the android-based montasefilm application (temporarily suspended) as Indonesia’s first film community application.