A Balinese Trance Seance

A Balinese Trance Seance is a documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker the late Tim Asch that profiles Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium. It was one of five films that were made with Jero Tapakan and were considered to be exemplary ethnographic film ^[1]

The film was the first in the series - A Balinese Trance Seance (1979), - the later films were: Jero on Jero: "A Balinese Trance Seance" Observed (1981), The Medium is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage (1983), and Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of a Balinese Healer (1983).^[2]

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Further reading

• Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch.(1986) Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Monograph No.9, Ethnographics Press, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, (1986) 1996 2nd Edition. ISBN 1-878986-07-4.

External links

• A Balinese Trance Seance
• A Balinese Trance Seance at the Internet Movie Database