In this experimental documentary film, I try to articulate the cycle of human life that is believed by the Balinese Hindu community. Through experimentation in this work I use the perspective of someone who did not grow up and was born in Bali but became part of the traditions and cultural identity through what was passed down by families who experienced urbanization. By looking at it from afar, I found several things that could be compared, namely how the Balinese people and the people on the island of Java see death itself.

The Balinese Hindu community believes in a philosophy of ‘Punar Bhawa‘ or reincarnation which will continue to occur in the human life cycle until they can finally achieve ‘Moksa’, this makes the cremation tradition carried out by the Balinese Hindu community celebrated without sadness, instead the strains of baleganjur (gamelan) are played. rousing. However, people on the island of Java do it in silence. In these two points of view, I try to question the meaning of the Ngaben procession itself. Ngaben is the departure of someone who has made memories with people who have ties, and Ngaben is interpreted as the beginning of a new life to usher the soul to meet its new body and start from zero with a different time, name and body.

Through the narrative that is present in this film visually, the audience is invited to look back at a tradition that they may have never experienced. The Balinese Hindu community interprets this philosophy of life over death as something that has been passed down from generation to generation as a tradition. By raising this narrative, I try to share traditions that I think not many people know about, and invite the audience to question together their traditions that have never been heard or shared as an untold stories.