Events - 2008
A Song of Ceylon
Film
Presented by:
Directed by Laleen Jayamanne
At:
Greater Union Cinema
Hindley St, Adelaide
The sound track interprets a Sri Lanken ritual of spirit possession and cure. The image track stages a spectacle of bodies in extremis. The bodily states of narcissism, mashochism and hysteria are intimated by gesture, sound, lighting and stillness, drawing on two different cultures and theatrical traditions.
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