Book chapter
Leaves on a Pillow: The Representation of Street Children in the Indonesian Film Daun di Atas Bantal
Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives, pp.50-62
Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series, Routledge
2024
Abstract
In 1998, three Indonesian street children experienced brief international fame as the lead characters in an award-winning film with acclaimed actress Christine Hakim, and Indonesian film director Garin Nugroho. The film Daun di Atas Bantal (Leaf on a Pillow) won a number of international awards by portraying street children in the Javanese city of Yogyakarta as stigmatised, neglected and marginalised by state and society. Twenty-five years after the film was made, this chapter is based on interviews with the two of the child 'actors' from the film, Heru and Kancil, who are now young adults. Kancil is now a fisherman on the Javanese coast; and Heru is an artist, living in regional Victoria, Australia. Significantly for this research the young street adults remain entrenched in a close-knit collective (online) community or subculture. The chapter seeks to explore how the young men perceive the way street children were represented in the film, how they were asked to perform their lived experiences and what impact the film had on their lives.
Details
- Title
- Leaves on a Pillow: The Representation of Street Children in the Indonesian Film Daun di Atas Bantal
- Authors
- Harriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyWiryo Warisno (Heru) (Author)
- Contributors
- Stuart C. Aitken (Editor)Jacob Rowlett (Editor)
- Publication details
- Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives, pp.50-62
- Series
- Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003347446-5; 10.4324/9781003347446
- ISBN
- 9781003347446
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Centre; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991002031602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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