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Shadows and Illuminations is a 2010 documentary film that is part of the Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia ethnographic film series based on material drawn from 12 years of person-centered research by anthropologist Robert Lemelson. The film series was directed by Robert Lemelson and produced by Robert Lemelson and Alessandra ...
Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia is a six-part ethnographic documentary film series on the lives of the mentally ill living on the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia. Each film documents the personal journey of a patient's diagnosis, care and treatment and the impact of culture, family, and community on the course of ...
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...
Panakawan (right) accompanied their masters in a traditional wayang wong theater performance in Yogyakarta.September 1923. Panakawan in wayang kulit, from left to right: Bagong, Petruk, Gareng, and Semar.
Wayang kulit (Javanese: ꦮꦪꦁꦏꦸꦭꦶꦠ꧀ (in the ngoko register)) [1] is a traditional form of shadow puppetry originally found in the cultures of Java and Bali in Indonesia. [2] In a wayang kulit performance, the puppet figures are rear-projected on a taut linen screen with a coconut oil (or electric) light.
Most of Indonesia's oldest theatre forms are linked directly to local literary traditions (oral and written). The prominent puppet theatres — wayang golek (wooden rod-puppet play) of the Sundanese and wayang kulit (leather shadow-puppet play) of the Javanese and Balinese —draw much of their repertoire from indigenized versions of the ...
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia. The statutory Indonesian Film Board , or BPI, defines Indonesian films as "movies that are made by or using Indonesian resources whose Intellectual Property Right is owned either entirely or partly by Indonesian citizen or Indonesian legal entity".
The film is the first Netflix original production from Indonesia [15] and received acclaim from critics with a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. [16] The film stars top action stars Joe Taslim ( Fast & Furious 6 , Star Trek Beyond ) and Iko Uwais whom he worked with previously in Headshot .