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  • Kites and Monsters (2011)
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    Video | 23 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Kites and Monsters (2011)
Not Rated
Video | 23 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Kites & Monsters is part of a series of ethnographic films on severe mental illness in Indonesia, based on material drawn from 12 years of person-centered research by director and anthropologist Robert Lemelson. The film focuses on a ...See moreKites & Monsters is part of a series of ethnographic films on severe mental illness in Indonesia, based on material drawn from 12 years of person-centered research by director and anthropologist Robert Lemelson. The film focuses on a growing boy, Wayan Yoga, who, at six years old, is an energetic boy who flies kites and is obsessed with the monsters of Balinese mythology. He also has various tics which move his parents to seek treatment. At twenty, he is a young man planning his career as a chef and an expressive Balinese dancer. Ultimately, Wayan Yoga's tics are insignificant to his evolving sense of self compared to the saturation of symbols, images, and narratives of his culture. While Wayan must learn to negotiate the kinds of movements, interests, and goals that are culturally appropriate, the protective buffer of his family guides him successfully into normative Balinese adulthood. Kites and Monsters follows a young Balinese from boyhood to manhood, discovering the influential and protective aspects of culture that may guide developmental neuropsychiatric processes. Written by Elemental Productions See less
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