Learning on ScreenFour Films on a Healer in Central Bali
- Synopsis
- Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an individual. JERO ON JERO: A BALINESE TRANCE SEQUENCE OBSERVED follows on with Jero’s reactions to herself on film.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Year of production
- 1980
- Documentation
- Study guide ‘Jero Tapakan, Balinese Healer’ by the the three filmmakers is included
- Uses
- Undergraduates, postgraduates. *RAI
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Medical sciences
- Keywords
- Bali; Indonesia; seances; spiritualism; traditional medicine; trances
Credits
- Director
- Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
- Contributor
- Linda Connor
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £50.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 103 minutes
- Year
- 2006
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £50.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 103 minutes
- Year
- 2006
Sections
- Title
- Balinese Trance Seance, A
- Synopsis
- Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an individual. JERO ON JERO: A BALINESE TRANCE SEQUENCE OBSERVED follows on with Jero’s reactions to herself on film.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Obvserved
- Synopsis
- Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.
- Duration
- 16 mins
- Title
- Medium is the Masseuse, The: A Balinese Massage
- Synopsis
- Jero uses massage and traditional medicines to treat Ida Bagus, who suffers from sterility and seizures. Through her treatment and her words, Jero reveals her conceptions of the human body, the nature of illness, the contrast between Western and traditional Balinese medicine, and the relationship between human beings ad the cosmos.
- Duration
- 31 mins
- Title
- Jero Tapakan: Stories from the Life of a Balinese Healer
- Synopsis
- Jero begins with an account of her family’s extreme poverty that culminated in her desire to leave her family and decide to travel as a pedlar. She describes mystical experiences that led her to recognise her own ‘blessed madness’ and to return home. Jero’s account is unique but themes of poverty, mysticism, madness and humility are common elements in the autobiographical accounts of many Balinese healers.
- Duration
- 26 mins
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute Film & Video Library, c/o Concord Media
- sales@concordvideo.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726012
- Fax
- 01473 274531
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
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