Gods of Bali (1951)

Gods of Bali documents the practices and beliefs that found the Balinese existence. Carefully attenuated to the details of the rituals it captures - which range from musical performances, to trances, to the staging of myths - the film depicts a society in which the gap between heaven and earth isn't nearly as wide as it is in the West. Here, the religious and ritualistic aspects of life are as irreducibly a part of existence as food, geography, and language.