The Spectre Watches Over Her

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Samarasinghe, Rajee, filmmaker.

Canyon Cinema, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--South Asia.

Colonies.

Exorcism--South Asia.

Exorcism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 min.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

San Francisco Canyon Cinema 2016

Summary:

A reaction to the seminal text by Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz entitled "Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon," this high contrast hand processed film considers a history of colonialism and ethnographic practices in South Asia. At my mother's village, I restaged an exorcism once performed on her in the early 1960s when she was a little girl. Possessed by the lecherous entity known as the Kalu Kumara, the Sanni Yakuma healing ritual was performed over a 12-hour period

Credits:

Rajee Samarasinghe, filmmaker

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343076836

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license