Buttonijo, Movie Rental and Creative Work Store

Indonesia has abundant creative and cool works, starting from movies, photography, design, architect, and many other works, not only become domestic consumption but also win many awards abroad.

DailySocial featured several times of website and services that provide facility to display or sell works such as KayaKarya. Now we have Buttonijo.com to display their creative showcase, other than that Buttonijo also facilitates work selling.

Various creative works starting from movie, music, photography, and design will be displayed there. As written on their website, Buttonijo is an answer derived from perplexity of how to display works. In Buttonijo, artists will be given freedom to set their own price and are given control over their displayed works. As for movie, Buttonijo will provide movie rental service.

At the moment there are two addresses for Buttonijo service. Buttonijo.com is still in development stage so its not open to public yet, while Buttonijostore.com has provided movie rental service although there are only two movies available at the moment. Amir Pohan from Buttonijo sent information to Daily Social that Buttonijo.com is still under development. For their active and available service (movie rental) they have Buttonijostore.com.

Movie rental’s fee is $1.5 with rental period of 7 days; renter can pause and replay anytime during rental period. Payment methods used are PayPal, Amazon and credit card. Available movies are Dead Chicken In A Rice Barn by Darwin Nugraha and Amir Pohan, and The Jak by Amir Pohan and Andibachtiar Yusuf.

Quoting ImmuDatabase, Buttonijo is developed by Amir Pohan, a filmmaker who developed Butoonijo as alternative means to distribute independent movies. They will also add more independent movies.

Buttonijo.com site at the moment is still under development, but I've seen their site layout. Other than uneven several buttons and design elements, other facilities are yet to be available, but there will be facility of 4 stores available: Flick Shop (for movies), Music Shop, Image Shop, and Tees Shop.

Frankly I always find interesting about websites that display and become creative works market place. All those works (non mainstream) sometimes become hard to find. So now at least there is one place for displaying such works. As for movie rental, it will face internet connection problem (in Indonesia) and image quality, but such movie rental option is interesting to see, the level of success is still debatable, especially for Indonesian market. However, as alternative it is worth trying and developed.

Translated by Nita Sellya.