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Tajen

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Filmmaker Name: Robert Lemelson, Alessandra Pasquino
Film Length: 30 min
Film Year: 2017
Duration: 21-45 min
Decade: 2010s
Color: color
Region: Asia
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Shot in the arid landscape of West Bali, Indonesia, Tajen, Balinese for cockfight, follows multiple narrative threads of this ancient spectacle--that of the blade, the rooster, the cockfighter.  It is the moment when these elements come together during the bloody match that the real drama begins. 

With a richly sensory approach that embeds the viewer within the action of the arena, Tajen is a poetic visual evocation of the intimacy, brutality, and festivity of the fight. While neither approving nor decrying this tradition, the film immerses the viewer into the visual and auditory domains of steel, feathers, blood and the money that defines Tajen.

The film, and its companion website Tajen: Interactive were conceptualized as a visual ethnography to complement Clifford Geertz's seminal piece, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" and bring the study of the fight into the 21st century.  

SELECTED SCREENINGS
Society for Visual Anthropology, 2016
International Ethnographic Film Festival (Belgrade), 2016
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2019

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