Garden Amidst the Flame (2022)

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• 2022
• Natasha Tontey

Garden Amidst the Flame is a coming of age story where we guided into the fantasy of a young Minahasan girls in non-linear time structure. The plot of was written after Natasha participated in a Karai ritual. The sublime immaterial experience of digging, taking part, and observing her ancestral culture inspired her to conceived this work. The work explores the psychology of the many fictional characters that appear in the film. They all interact with each other to thinking a new method of speculative care, as an idea to oppose the hypermasculine presentation of Minahasan ritual culture and everyday life.