Gregory Bateson Movies

Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali. The famous Kris Dance is performed.

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major...

Compares treatment of Balinese and Iatmul (New Guinea) babies with American practices. The different methods of bathing children is seen in three...

This film consists of a series of scenes in which children of the same age in different cultures, in Bali and in New Guinea, respond to the fact that...