2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com

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