"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries which surpass the conventional documentary format. Just as frightening and fascinating as "Les maîtres fous", this one goes straight into the roots of ancient African cultures, in which music has an hypnotic effect, being at the same time an exorcism and a public show. Both the female and the male dancers are almost deities about to be unleashed... Spectral and humanitarian.
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...
This Christmas, step into the magical world of The Nutcracker. For the first time in many years, the...
A love story, portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition. It is a film about a ...
A love letter to Mar del Plata made of images, times and a road trip. "The Happy Ones" is an experi...
Alone, Eva Fahidi returned home to Hungary after WWII. At 20 years of age, she had survived Auschwit...
A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of ...
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
BLACK BALLERINA tells the story of several black women from different generations who fell in love w...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...
Reconstitution of the alleged true story about demonic possession that was behind William Friedkin's...
Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentar...
Explore the first – and only – time “demonic possession” has officially been used as a defense in a ...
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, Indi...
Facing financial challenges and constant risks of injury, an innovative ballet company strives to br...