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Balinese requiem
Title
Balinese requiem [electronic resource] / produced by National Museum of Ethnology ; directed by Yasuhiro Omori.
Published
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (63 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Documentary filmed in 1988 and originally released in 1992.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Narration in English or dialogue in Indonesian with English subtitles.
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Summary
In a Balinese village, families go to great trouble and expense for their extravagant cremation ceremony. They provide special food for mourners and offerings for the deceased. A shadow pupped show is performed, inheritances and distributed and musical processions of mourners walk the streets. The bones of the dead are uncovered, washed and arranged for cremation with accompanying prayer rites. During cremation, the village is filled with smoke from pyres shaped like bulls, as the souls of the dead are cleansed of impurity, then sent out to sea to continue their journey to heaven. The film documents and explains the intricacies of these funeral rites and Balinese-Hindu beliefs about death.
Variant and related titles
Ethnographic video online.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2010
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