Memories of My Body

This film is about a man named WAHYU JUNO, from young ages he grows up without a mother ‘s love and misses mother’s arms in the journey of his life. Juno was born in poor village in the middle of teak forest. A village known as the center of lengger dance. A village with a social dance culture characterized by female dance performed by men. 

Since young Juno grows and feels that in a man there is always element of male and female. A journey of life that brings his body into various violent events. Juno’s Male – Female body be- comes the representation of traumatic body of social and political violence and was forced to move from one place to another. 

This story begins when Juno grows up, an audition to become the main dancer in a major dance company overseas. An audition that brings Juno tells the story of his life since childhood as well as presented in the form of dance. 

A flashback of the humanist story of Juno’s body in sociological and political sphere that dis- criminatory and full with misunderstandings, despite the fact that cross-male-female bodies be- come part of the long history of Indonesian society.