40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy

40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
Taiwanese沉默之聲-印尼悲歌
Directed byRobert Lemelson
Produced by
  • Robert Lemelson
  • Alessandra Pasquino
Narrated by
  • Robert Lemelson
  • Romo Baskara Wardaya
  • Geoffrey Robinson
  • John Roosa
CinematographyDag Yngvesson
Edited by
  • Kathy Huang
  • Wing Ko
  • Emily Ng
  • Pietro Scalia
  • Heidi Zimmerman
Music by
Production
company
Elemental Productions
Release date
  • 2009 (2009) (United States)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$400,000

40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy is a documentary film by anthropologist Robert Lemelson about the personal effects of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966. The film was shot on the islands of Bali and Java from 2002–2006. The score is a collaboration between the British composer Malcolm Cross and the Balinese musician Nyoman Wenten, and combines Western tonalities and chordal structures with Balinese and Javanese scalar progressions and melodies. The film was released in the United States in 2009, and has had limited screenings throughout Indonesia.