Ancient Soul
A Kawa Ijen sulfur miner finds his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away.He enters then a time loop that transforms his reality as his beliefs move from animism to Islam and capitalism.In a hybridization between ethnofiction and documentary, the film questions the myth of progress and explores the relationship with the otherness in the neocolonial reality of the South Seas .
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A Kawa Ijen sulfur miner finds his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. He enters then a time loop that transforms his reality as his beliefs move from animism to Islam and capitalism. In a hybridization between ethnofiction and documentary, the film questions the myth of progress and explores the relationship with the otherness in the neocolonial reality of the South Seas .
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- Release date
- May 27, 2022
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
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- Language
- Javanese
- Country
- Spain
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