OUR CATALOG
A Song of Ceylon
A film by Laleen Jayamanne
Australia | 1985 | 51 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 99048
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
“The anthropological text is performed both like a musical score and a theatrical ritual….The film engages the viewer in the cinematic body as spectacle…”
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Edinburgh Film Festival
- Sydney Film Festival
- Melbourne Film Festival
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
A professor of cinema studies at the Power Department of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, filmmaker Laleen Jayamanne received her BA from the University of Ceylon, her MA from New York University, and her PhD from the University of New South Wales. She was a recipient of an ARC Discovery grant, and her research focuses on cross-cultural film criticism, feminist film theory, and Deleuzean film theory. Some of Jayamanne’s published works include: Towards Cinema and its Double: Cross-cultural Mimesis (2001), Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment (1995), and The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O’Rourke’s The Good Woman of Bangkok (1997). (07/09)