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Death of the One who Knows
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Filmmaker Name:
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Dana Rappoport
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Film Length:
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82 min
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Film Year:
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2020
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Duration:
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76-90 min
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Decade:
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2020s
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Language:
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in Toraja, Indonesian
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Subtitle Language:
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with English subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Asia
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Subject:
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Religion and Spirituality
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In the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi (Indonesia), Lumbaa is one of the last masters of ritual speech. After his forced conversion to Pentecostalism, he is compelled to stop all his ritual activity and oratory. Concerned by the disappearance of “those who know”, a young Catholic priest named Yans Sulo sets out in search of the society’s ancient oral genres, seeking to invent new forms that would keep them alive. The two men meet. But it is too late. By recounting the life and death of Lumbaa, the film shows how the intrusion of world religion disrupts a Southeast Asian society.
"This documentary concerns the struggle to keep Aluk Todolo and its rituals alive in the face of government efforts at erasure. There is a beauty, order and moral sophistication to Lumbaa. He gently draws our attention to painful tensions between morality, tradition, religion and daily village life. Rappoport locates his story within a narrative concerning Christianity, colonialism, globalisation and disruption... Rappoport's film documents important and threatened customary knowledge in her focus on this ritual leader and his prowess. Ethnomusicology and documentary cinema are powerful tools in understanding the complex way in which ritual change is a corollary to socio-political contestation. Its brilliance is haunting." – Tanisha Jowsey, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Selected Screenings & Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Documentary, International Council for Traditional Music, 2022 Honourable Mention, Werbner Award for Visual Anthropology, RAI Film Festival, 2021
AAS 2022 Film Expo, USA, 2022
Riga Pasaules Film Festival, 2021
Bayonne Film Festival Haizebegi, 2021
Maison de l'Asie (EFEO), 2021
Death of the One who Knows
With
To Minaa To Buraké Lumbaa
R.D. Yans Sulo Paganna'
Direction, Images, and Sound
Dana Rappoport
Editing
Jérémy Leroux
Franck Guillemain
Sound Mixing
Mathieu Dumeige
Calibration
Vanessa Colombel
Production
Le Miroir, Gabriel Chabanier
Planimonteur
Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CNRS/EHESS/INALCO)
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