John Darling

Name: John Darling
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922633590
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An Australian Filmmaker in Bali

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John Darling is a captivating memoir that delves into the life of a remarkable individual who navigates both personal and professional triumphs and challenges. Through engaging storytelling, it offers insights into the author's experiences, capturing the essence of resilience and ambition against a backdrop of historical and cultural settings. This biography paints a vivid portrait of its subject, inviting readers to explore an inspirational journey.
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John Darling

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Acclaimed filmmaker John Darling lived in Bali through the 1970s and 1980s. During that time, he created the films that established him as the leading foreign filmmaker of Indonesia. This included Lempad of Bali, which celebrated the life and times of the astonishing Balinese artist Gusti Nyoman Lempad. Today, Darling is often remembered for his documentary The Healing of Bali, made in the immediate aftermath of the October 2002 bombing in Kuta and described in The Sydney Morning Herald as a ‘masterpiece’.

This collection of essays is a multifaceted portrayal of Darling’s years in Bali, revealing the cultural experiences that shaped him. Transcending conventional biography, it contains essays in his honour, paired with his poetry and photographs, as well as critical essays on his work and personal reminiscences of his life from Balinese and Australian expatriates. It is a book for fans of John’s work as well as the new generation of filmmakers he inspired, and those with an interest in Balinese culture and Bali’s cosmopolitan expatriate scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

Published in conjunction with Monash University’s Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922633590

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Graeme MacRae
Edited by Anton Lucas

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction

About the Author

Graeme MacRae is an anthropologist who works at Massey University, Auckland. He has been researching in Indonesia, mainly Bali, since the early 1990s. His connection with John was originally through the same neighbourhood, family and mentor that John had lived with two decades earlier. Anton Lucas is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. His publications include books and articles on the Indonesian revolution, and on agrarian and environmental issues. His connection with John goes back to their schooldays together and they began their research careers in Indonesia at the same time in 1970.