Film Screening: "On behalf of the living" Directed by Ton Otto, Christian Suhr and Gary Kildea
Time: 24 September 2025, 3pm - 5pm Place: MoMu Auditorium
The film will be presented and discussion led by two of the three directors, Professor Otto and Professor Suhr.
ON BEHALF OF THE LIVING is about the ways human beings relate to their dead. By immersing himself in daily life and religious ritual among family and adopted kin in the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea, anthropologist Ton Otto seeks to understand how people in very different cultures deal with the universal question of the existence of an afterlife. In continuous dialogue and confrontation, Ton Otto and his co-filmmaker Christian Suhr explore the limits of their knowledge and of filmic representation.
Read more about the film - including an interview with Ton Otto - and see a trailer on the DER website:
https://www.der.org/responsible-reciprocal-and-relevant-filmmaking-a-conversation-with-ton-otto-about-his-baluan-trilogy/
