Explore the Balinese Cockfight with a Screening of Tajen: a Sensory Ethnography and Discussion on Tajen Interactive: a Multimodal Experiment
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- Khalili Lecture Theatre
About this event
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Robert Lemelson (UCLA)
Summary
Immerse in Tajen, a 30 minute sensory ethnography film which is a poetic evocation of the intimacy, brutality, and festivity of the Balinese cockfight, followed by a Q&A with one of the directors. Explore the process of making a multimodal project, Tajen: Interactive, which provides a more textured understanding of the cultural, historical and psychological aspects of the cockfight with over a dozen videos, articles, and resources.
Director Biography
Robert Lemelson is a cultural and visual anthropologist. Lemelson currently is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and a visiting professor at the University of Southern California. Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2007, a documentary film company and has directed and produced over a dozen ethnographic films related to culture, psychology and personal experience. His most recent book is "Afflictions: Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology", published in 2017 by Palgrave Press.
Organiser: SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies
Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4893
