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Item no. : HB03921307<br />
Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)<br />
Duration : 22 minutes<br />
Audience : Grades 8-12, Adult<br />
Education, Post<br />
Secondary<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
Price : USD 188.00<br />
HEALTH AND/OR<br />
MEDICINE<br />
AFFLICTIONS: AFFLICTIONS: CULTURE<br />
CULTURE<br />
AND AND AND MENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS ILLNESS IIN<br />
I N<br />
INDONESIA<br />
INDONESIA INDONESIA - KITES KITES KITES AND<br />
AND<br />
MONSTERS<br />
MONSTERS<br />
By Robert Lemelson<br />
The film focuses on a growing boy, Wayan<br />
Yoga, and is not so much about illness as<br />
it is an exploration of the protective<br />
aspects of culture that may guide<br />
developmental neuropsychiatric<br />
processes. At six years old, Wayan Yoga<br />
is an energetic boy who flies kites and is<br />
obsessed with the monsters of Balinese<br />
mythology. He also has various tics, which<br />
move his parents to seek treatment. At<br />
twenty, he is a young man planning his<br />
career as a chef and an expressive<br />
Balinese dancer. Ultimately, Wayan Yoga's<br />
tics are insignificant to his evolving sense<br />
of self-<strong>com</strong>pared to the saturation of<br />
symbols, images, and narratives of his<br />
culture. While Wayan must learn to<br />
negotiate the kinds of movements,<br />
interests, and goals that are culturally<br />
appropriate, the protective buffer of his<br />
family guides him successfully into<br />
normative Balinese adulthood.<br />
Item no. : FC03720820<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 22 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 167.00<br />
AFFLICTIONS: AFFLICTIONS: CULTURE<br />
CULTURE<br />
AND AND MENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS ILLNESS IIN<br />
I N<br />
INDONESIA INDONESIA - MEMORY MEMORY OF<br />
OF<br />
MY MY MY FACE<br />
FACE<br />
By Robert Lemelson<br />
The film focuses on Bambang Rudjito, a<br />
university-educated Indonesian man in his<br />
late thirties diagnosed with schizoaffective<br />
disorder. It explores the "globalized"<br />
features of Bambang's illness and<br />
recovery narrative — western psychiatric<br />
diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, work<br />
opportunities in a rapidly changing urban<br />
environment, participation in an interfaith<br />
religious <strong>com</strong>munity, and his family's<br />
understanding and acceptance of what<br />
Bambang describes as a "mental<br />
disability." But it also considers aspects of<br />
Bambang's more <strong>com</strong>plex, historically and<br />
politically shaded narrative, giving<br />
language and a deeper substance to his<br />
illness experience. Memory of My Face<br />
illustrates how the residues of colonialism<br />
and the pervasive influence of<br />
globalization affect the subjective<br />
experience of mental illness.<br />
Item no. : YE03790821<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 22 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 167.00<br />
AFFLICTIONS: AFFLICTIONS: CULTURE<br />
CULTURE<br />
CULTURE<br />
AND AND MENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS ILLNESS IIN<br />
I N<br />
INDONESIA INDONESIA - RITUAL<br />
RITUAL<br />
BURDENS<br />
BURDENS<br />
By Robert Lemelson<br />
The film focuses on Ni Ketut Kasih who<br />
has lived her whole life surrounded by the<br />
<strong>com</strong>plex rhythms of the Balinese ritual<br />
calendar. Here, participation in ritual<br />
events is both a spiritual mandate and<br />
social obligation for women who spend<br />
countless hours crafting offerings. Ni<br />
Ketut's masterful hand has contributed to<br />
her status as a highly respected<br />
ceremonial leader. However, the<br />
pressures of ritual requirements often<br />
overwhelm her, crowding her mind with<br />
memories of her difficult childhood during<br />
Indonesia's war for independence. This<br />
may trigger Ketut's bi-polar disorder<br />
episodes, for which she has been<br />
hospitalized over 35 times. Ni Ketut's case<br />
reveals the binding associations that may<br />
make certain burdens unbearable as<br />
cultural obligations, traumatic historical<br />
events, and personal experience overlap<br />
in unique schemas of stress that trigger<br />
cyclical episodes of mental illness.<br />
Award<br />
� Prestige Award and Film Festival,<br />
USA, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Item no. : HV03650822<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 25 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 167.00<br />
FANTOME FANTOME ISLAND<br />
ISLAND<br />
By Sean Gilligan and Adrian Strong<br />
In 1945 seven-year-old Joe Eggmolesse<br />
was diagnosed with Leprosy. He was<br />
taken from his family under police escort<br />
and transported by rail and sea over a<br />
thousand kilometres to Fantome Island<br />
where he was to be incarcerated for the<br />
next ten years.<br />
The isolated tropical island off the North<br />
Queensland coast became home to a<br />
close-knit <strong>com</strong>munity of indigenous<br />
"lepers" whose marginalized existence<br />
was hidden from white society and has<br />
until now remained absent from the<br />
mainstream historical record. Cared for by<br />
nuns from the Franciscan Missionaries of<br />
Mary their isolation was the consequence<br />
of apartheid-like policies developed by the<br />
Queensland government and medical<br />
establishment which espoused a<br />
eugenicist philosophy and regarded racial<br />
segregation as standard practice.<br />
As one of the few surviving former patients<br />
Joe returns to the island for a long awaited<br />
event, the Fantome Island Remembrance<br />
Day. As a 73 year old Elder he confronts<br />
the memory of his childhood on the island<br />
to pay tribute to those who lived and died<br />
there and to inscribe his own unique story<br />
into official Australian history. Drawing on<br />
an evocative archive, this film exposes<br />
how an ideology of racism and eugenics<br />
worked to justify horrific treatment of<br />
Australia's Indigenous <strong>com</strong>munities. In<br />
uncovering this shameful history, Fantome<br />
Island is a testimony of strength and<br />
endurance, demonstrating one man's<br />
incredible capacity for forgiveness and<br />
love.<br />
Awards<br />
� Best Australian Documentary, Human<br />
Rights Arts and Film Festival,<br />
Australia, <strong>2012</strong><br />
� John Oxley Library Award,<br />
Queensland Memory Awards, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Item no. : VH03720826<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 82 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 282.00<br />
HEALTH CARE<br />
ISSUES<br />
SUBSTANCE, SUBSTANCE, SUBSTANCE, THE: THE: ALBE ALBERT ALBE ALBERT<br />
RT<br />
HOFMANN'S HOFMANN'S LSD LSD<br />
LSD<br />
Directed by Martin Witz<br />
In 1943, at the Sandoz<br />
chemical-pharmaceutical laboratories in<br />
Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert<br />
Hofmann, in search of a respiratory and<br />
circulatory stimulant, first synthesized<br />
LSD.<br />
Martin Witz's THE SUBSTANCE: ALBERT<br />
HOFMANN'S LSD is an informative and<br />
entertaining investigation into the history<br />
of a drug so potent that mere fractions of a<br />
milligram can alter a subject's perception<br />
of reality.<br />
Viewers learn how Hofmann's discovery<br />
became the subject of 1950's Cold War<br />
experiments by the American military and<br />
the CIA, who saw LSD as a potential<br />
weapon. Meanwhile, international<br />
psychiatrists and consciousness<br />
researchers tried to unlock the drug's<br />
medicinal possibilities, wondering whether<br />
it might be an effective tool for<br />
contemporary psychiatry or neuroscience.<br />
In the early 1960s, Hofmann's "miracle<br />
drug" escaped from the lab. The<br />
psychedelic substance appealed to the<br />
counterculture, whose members saw LSD<br />
as fuel for social and political revolution.<br />
Could spiritual peace be achieved at the<br />
flick of a chemical switch?<br />
The notoriety and sense of possibility<br />
surrounding LSD persist to this day.<br />
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