Saturday, November 21st, 2020

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4:43p

Les maîtres fous The Mad Masters (Jean Rouch, 1955) It’s arguably the best documentary ever made. It’s about workers in Ghana: on weekends, they’d go out into the mountains and they drugged themselves by chewing some sort of lianas and do very, very strange rituals about the arrival of the Queen’s high commissioner. It was shot with a camera that you have to crank, so the maximum length of each shot is 24 seconds. The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by British Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation. https://youtu.be/LRXtpYfT0bw Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)

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