40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy (2009)
- Directed by
- Robert Lemelson
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at how the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966 affected individual survivors and their families. It focuses on personal stories from people living in Bali and Java.
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What happens
40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy is a documentary film by anthropologist Robert Lemelson about the personal effects of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966. The film was shot on the islands of Bali and Java from 2002–2006. The score is a collaboration between the British composer Malcolm Cross and the Balinese musician Nyoman Wenten, and combines Western tonalities and chordal structures with Balinese and Javanese scalar progressions and melodies. The film was released in the United States in 2009, and has had limited screenings throughout Indonesia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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