Author:Sobonfu Somé CSQ Issue:33.1 (Spring 2009) A Celebration of Pacific Culture I grew up in southwestern Burkina Faso, where the houses are built with mud and nicely polished with cow dung and ash. The children have their own rooms; the women have their rooms; and the men have their room. It is not to promote [...]
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To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community [...] REVIEW: ‘Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti’ is an incredible visual document chronicling authentic Haitian Voundoun practices as they’ve never been viewed by the public-at-large before. Filmed between ’47 and ’51 by the legendary cult filmmaker and author Maya Deren who was an initiate into these religious practices, her involvement made it possible for [...] |
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