Children of Mon Mot
Children of Mon Mot is a documentary surrounding an Abui folktale, the Mon Mot Mon, a legendary snake that consumes the inhabitants of an entire village. Recounted by four interviewees, the folktale comes to life as part of history and genealogy, revealing dark messages of foreboding. or this projec...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64280 |
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| author | Siao, Rachel Jia Yu |
| author2 | Ben Alvin Shedd |
| author_facet | Ben Alvin Shedd Siao, Rachel Jia Yu |
| author_sort | Siao, Rachel Jia Yu |
| collection | NTU |
| description | Children of Mon Mot is a documentary surrounding an Abui folktale, the Mon Mot Mon, a legendary snake that consumes the inhabitants of an entire village. Recounted by four interviewees, the folktale comes to life as part of history and genealogy, revealing dark messages of foreboding. or this project, I travelled to the island of Alor in east Indonesia and spent a month with the Abui tribe, whose language is practiced exclusively within themselves and faces extinction as it is a minority language ignored by schools in Indonesia. The film is shot entirely with DSLR and camcorder and consists of four sets of interviews edited with footage of Abui lifestyle and customs.By contextualizing the folktale of Mon Mot Mon into the film medium, this documentary is my homage to the mother tongue of the Abui people, allowing them to tell the story the way they want to,staying true to the act of the spoken tale passed down through generations. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/642802020-07-16T06:06:43Z Children of Mon Mot Siao, Rachel Jia Yu Ben Alvin Shedd School of Art, Design and Media ADM, HSS DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::Digital DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Cultural studies DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::History Children of Mon Mot is a documentary surrounding an Abui folktale, the Mon Mot Mon, a legendary snake that consumes the inhabitants of an entire village. Recounted by four interviewees, the folktale comes to life as part of history and genealogy, revealing dark messages of foreboding. or this project, I travelled to the island of Alor in east Indonesia and spent a month with the Abui tribe, whose language is practiced exclusively within themselves and faces extinction as it is a minority language ignored by schools in Indonesia. The film is shot entirely with DSLR and camcorder and consists of four sets of interviews edited with footage of Abui lifestyle and customs.By contextualizing the folktale of Mon Mot Mon into the film medium, this documentary is my homage to the mother tongue of the Abui people, allowing them to tell the story the way they want to,staying true to the act of the spoken tale passed down through generations. Bachelor of Fine Arts 2015-05-25T08:37:38Z 2015-05-25T08:37:38Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64280 Videos-DRNTU/sci_fyp_15/Children_of_Mon_Mot.wmv en Nanyang Technological University 28 p. application/pdf text/html |
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