Ritual Burdens

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Ritual Burdens highlights the relationship between communal spiritual obligations, ritual practices and cyclic illness episodes

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The film focuses on Ni Ketut Kasih who has lived her whole life surrounded by the complex rhythms of the Balinese ritual calendar.  Here, participation in ritual events is both a spiritual mandate and social obligation for women who spend countless hours crafting offerings. Ni Ketut’s masterful hand has contributed to her status as a highly respected ceremonial leader. However, the pressures of ritual requirements often overwhelm her, crowding her mind with memories of her difficult childhood during Indonesia’s war for independence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]This may trigger Ketut’s bi-polar disorder episodes, for which she has been hospitalized over 35 times. Ni Ketut’s case reveals the binding associations that may make certain burdens unbearable as cultural obligations, traumatic historical events, and personal experience overlap in unique schemas of stress that trigger cyclical episodes of mental illness. Ritual Burdens questions how communal spiritual obligations may be folded into personal schemas of stress to trigger episodes of mental illness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

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25 min | 2011

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Producer

Director of Photography

Assistant Camera

Consulting Editor

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Original Music Score

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Robert Lemelson

Alessandra Pasquino

Wing Ko

Dag Yngvesson

Pietro Scalia

Herbert Bennett

Mike Mallen

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