Balong International Journal of Design Vol.2.No.2 Landscape As Cultural Identity In Cau Bau Kan Movie Teddy Hendiawan 1 , Aris Rahmansyah 2 1,2 Visual Communication Design Department Creative Industry Faculty – Telkom University E-mail: 1 teddyhendiawan@telkomuniversity.ac.id 2 arisrahmansyah@telkomuniversity.ac.id Abstract.The aim of this research is to investigate the landscape as forming identity in the Cau Bau Kan movie scene. However, the landscape depicted is often symbolic, and often contributes to social formation, impacting on human associations and social norms. The purpose of this study is to know the meaning of landscape into a cultural identity from the Cau Bau Kan movie. This study uses texture analysis to reveal surface quality in a film. The use of textural analysis to interpret and analyze the interrelations of narrative, style, and meaning of the strategy of applying aspects of landscape as cultural identity. Keywords: Landscape, cultural identity, Ca Bau Kan film INTRODUCTION The development of Indonesian films in the era of reformation has increased, especially films that adapt stories from novels. One of the film adaptations of the first novel in the reformation era is the film Ca Bau Kan. The era of reformation is an era in which the stage of Indonesian reality opens a new habitus, from a monolithic nature and a highly hierarchical value system, to a distributive form of habitus. According to Huntington in Buwono X, (2007, p. 5) at this time there has been a phenomenon of increasing awareness of ethnic, cultural, and religious identity. Increasing ethnic identity in Indonesia, became the basis for the emergence of films that raised locality or locality. According to Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (2005) in the book Film Art: An Introduction, film is a system that consists of interdependent elements and influences one another. The elements that make up a film are the form (style) style (style). Form (form) associated with the significance of the material (concept, principles) and narrative structure as a formal system, namely the relations between events and the development of plots, stories, space, and time. Whereas style relates to the characteristics of technical aspects namely, cinematic. Cinematic consists of several components namely, mise en scene (settings / settings, costumes / make-up, lighting, actor / object movements), cinematography, editing, and sound. The form and style are essential in the film as well as an evolutionary approach to film language called the stylistic approach and give rise to various discourses. 93