B.A.T.A.M.
(2008) 

DIR.:
Liam Dalzell
Per Erik Eriksson
Johan Lindquist
TRT:
33 min
MPAA RATING:
NR
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B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep.


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B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep. In this free-trade zone, an official economy based in the factories, and an unofficial economy of prostitution, have developed together increasing Batam's population from 3,000 to 700,000. As the two divergent economies depend on female labor, the experiences of these two women illuminate the ways in which multinational capitalism and migration interact in the shadowlands of globalization.

"There is no doubt in my mind that this particular film would stand out as an exceptional addition to any ethnographic film catalog and, more pointedly, to the collecti on of liberal arts colleges. ... I am confident that the film would be utilized in a wide range of courses in Anthropology, and other disciplines, and is germane to such diverse and important scholarly topics as the study of globalization, development, transnationalism, Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, and as I have used it, in courses explicitly concerned with cross-cultural study of gender and ethnographic film." — Matthew Amster, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Gettysburg College

CAST & CREW

  • Producer(s): Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson, Johan LindquistLiam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson, Johan Lindquist
  • Writer(s): Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson, Johan Lindquist

GENRES

Documentary  

SUBJECTS

Women's Issues, Countries, Geographical Areas, Human Rights, Human Rights Issues, Identity Ethnicity and Sexuality, Indonesia, Sex Work and the Sex Trade, World Affairs

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