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Trascendiendo los significados usuales de la antropología visual, Forest of Bliss, es una obra singularmente poética, una “sinfonía de ciudad” modernista, que crea un retrato panorámico de la antigua ciudad de Benares, India. En busca de ocupar el tiempo entre dos amaneceres, el filme se concentra en las personas, tanto de los vivos en busca de la purificación en el Ganges, como en los innumerables muertos quienes son cremados en sus bordes. Al evitar la utilización de voz en off o subtítulos, Robert Gardner ha creado una obra visual única que sutilmente reconoce el estatus de extranjero tanto del realizador como del espectador, mientras captura poderosamente las multitudes en el trabajo, el juego y la oración.
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The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia, about one hundred miles north of Lake Rudolph, Africa's great inland sea. They are isolated by some distant choice that now limits their movement and defines their condition. At least until recently, it has resulted in their retaining a highly traditional way of life. Hamar women eagerly accept their ritual whipping when boys come of age. Part of that tradition was the open, even flamboyant, observance of male supremacy. In their isolation, they seemed to have refined this not uncommon principle of social organization into a remarkably pure state. Hamar men are masters and their women are slaves. The film tries to disclose the effect on mood and behavior of lives governed by the idea of sexual inequality.
