PAHIT MANIS,
Night Forest

(2024) Single channel video, 28 mins








CREDITS
Director/Writer/Editor: Leyla Stevens
Cinematographer: Wayan Martino
Animation: Tristan Jalleh
Music: Isha Ram Das
Sound Design : Bob Scott & Serge Stanley
Dramaturg/Choreographer: Adhika Annissa

Cast     
Tantri (Dalang/Shadow Puppet Master): Ida Ayu Sri Widnyani
Painter/Pelukis: I Madé Griyawan
Voice Over & Vocalist: Luh Yesi Candrika
Voice Over (Togog's Dream): Wayan Martino

Animation Featuring Paintings By:
Ida Bagus Madé Togog (1911—1989)
Ida Bagus Nyoman Sasak (1913—1999)
Ida Bagus Madé Bala (1923—1942)
Ida Bagus Nyoman Sanur Tampi (1918—2014)
Ida Bagus Putu Tantra (1917—date unknown)
Ida Bagus Ketut Sawa (1915—1990)
Ida Bagus Ketut Diding (1910—1990)
I Dewa Ketut Cenik (1926—1956)
I Dewa Nyoman Dadug Kayunan (1917-1990)
I Wayan Taweng (1922—2004)

from the collection of R Lemelson (Ex-Mead-Bateson Collection)


Special Image Credit: 
Animation still from PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest (2024), featuring painting by Dewa Nyoman Dadug Kayunan from the collection of R Lemelson (Ex-Mead-Bateson Collection)

Animation still from PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest (2024), featuring painting by Ida Bagus Putu Tantra &  Ida Bagus Nyoman Sasak from the collection of R Lemelson (Ex-Mead-Bateson Collection)

Installation View: PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest, 2024 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales © Leyla Stevens, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins