Vero Tapakan – Stories From The Life Of A Balinese Healer
- 1983
- Australia; United States
- 26 minutes
Before becoming a healer, Vero Tapakan had a difficult life : she recounts her unhappy chilhood, how she left her husband and children to take to the road and become a pedlar. Later on, through mystical experiences, she became aware of her own “madness” and became a healer.
- Production : University of Southern California; Australian National University; Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.)
- Distribution : Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.); Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Editing : Patsy Asch
- Sound : Linda Connor; Patsy Asch
- Photography : Timothy Asch