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Balinese requiem / produced by National Museum of Ethnology ; directed by Yasuhiro Omori.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balinese (Indonesian people)--Funeral customs and rites.
- Balinese (Indonesian people).
- Cremation--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Cremation.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Bali.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video (63 min.))
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Narration in English or dialogue in Indonesian with English subtitles.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Documentary filmed in 1988 and originally released in 1992.
- OCLC:
- 649691021
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