Releasing the Spirits: A Village Cremation in Bali - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/releasing-the-spirits.html Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. This film is about a group of villagers in Central Bali who cooperated to carry out a group cremation in 1978. The film shows the way they approached this task, as well as the cycle of rituals: the cremation, post-cremation, and casting of ashes into the ocean. It had been 15 years since they last held this ceremony. Most of the narration is provided by four participants, recorded as they were watching videotapes of the ceremonies two years later. Each brings a different perspective to the events documented on the film. The three voices of the filmmakers also provide different insights.

a film by Linda Connor, Patsy Asch, and Timothy Asch
from the Jero Tapakan Film Series
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bali
• village
• ritual
• cremation
• Balinese
• Hindu
• funeral
• rites
• documentary
• film

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very cool! if you like stuff on Bali you should watch the Bali - Sacred and Secret trailer.