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SUMMARY:Oddball FIlms
DESCRIPTION:Asian\nTrance Cinema\n\n\nScreens at Oddball Films\n\nOn F
 riday, June 5th at 8:30PM Oddball Films presents Trance Cinema, An Eve
 ning of Ritual and Trance Films from Bali and Indonesia. The event wil
 l take place at Oddball Films, 275 Capp St, San Francisco. Admission i
 s $10.00. Limited Seating RSVP to info@oddballfilm.com or phone 558.81
 17.\nThis program includes four remarkable, rarely seen award-winning 
 films plus unique shorts exploring the unique cultural rituals and cer
 emonies of Bali and Indonesia. Films include “Trance and Dance in Ba
 li” (1937-39), Island of the Spirits, Ma’Bugi: Trance of the Toraj
 a, A Balinese Gong Orchestra (1971) and “Belles of Bali”(1930s). A
 sian Trance Cinema is the 4th in a series of ongoing film programs exp
 loring ritual, higher consciousness and altered states of awareness.\n
 \nEcstatic Ethnography\n\n\n\nFilms Include:\n\n“Trance and Dance in
  Bali” (1937-39) by Gregory Bateson and Jane Belo ; written and Marg
 aret Mead Records a performance of the Balinese ceremonial kris (dagge
 r) dance-drama, which depicts the never-ending struggle between witch 
 (death-dealing) and dragon (life-protecting), as it was given in the v
 illage of Pagoetan in the late 1930s. The dancers experience violent t
 rance seizures, turn their krises against their breasts without injury
 , and are restored to consciousness with incense and holy water. Narra
 ted by famed anthropologist Margaret Mead against a background of Bali
 nese music. This “ecstatic ethnography” was an extraordinary effor
 t to use film and photography in the field, and the precursor to much 
 of the visual anthropology that has gone on since then.\n\nIsland of t
 he Spirits (1970s)\nAmong the Hindus of Bali, cremation is thought to 
 release the soul for its journey to Nirwana. The joyous and spectacula
 r ceremony shown in Island of the Spirits is reserved for high-born pr
 inces today. Hugely costly, the preparations for the cremation of Prin
 ce Sudharsana include the building of fantastic effigies and a tower n
 ine stories high. Eight hundred men carry the tower in procession thro
 ugh the hundred thousand celebrants. The body of his small granddaught
 er and the souls of twenty-seven villagers accompany the prince. At th
 e close of this long and auspicious day, when towers and effigies toge
 ther with coffins, food, money, and incense have long been consumed by
  flames, when the crowds have departed, the ashes of the dead will be 
 cast into the sea. Only then will the newly liberated spirits rise unr
 estrained to join the heavenly soul of all the universe, Nirwana.\n\n\
 n\"Ma’Bugi: Trance of the Toraja\", depicts an unusual trance ritual
  that functions to restore the balance of well-being to an afflicted v
 illage community. The film communicates both the psychological abandon
  of the trance state and the often neglected motivation underlying act
 ivities such as the ascent of a ladder of knives and the supernatural 
 curing of the chronically ill. Ma’Bugi clearly portrays the song, da
 nce and pulsating tension that precede dramatic instances of spirit po
 ssession in the Toraja highlands Sulawesi (Celebes) Island, Indonesia.
 \n\n\nA Balinese Gong Orchestra (1971)\nA film explaining the famous \
 "Gamelan Gong\" that includes the orchestra Tunjuk. Each instrument is
  described and explained, then the orchestra performs a piece taken fr
 om the Ramayana ballet suite (written in the 1950s and based on tradit
 ional themes). An excellent introduction to this kind of strange and e
 xciting music to Western ears.\n\nBelles of Bali (1930s)\nAn unusual c
 urio examining the female culture and day to day activities of “exot
 ified” Balinese women.\n\nFor more information visit https://archite
 ctsofanewdawn.ning.com/events/oddball-films
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CATEGORIES:film, screening
LOCATION:Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street in San Francisco
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