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Kings of the water / a Fernando Trueba and the Centre Georges Pompidou presentation of a Philip Haas film ; producer, Fernando Trueba ; director, Philip Haas.
LIBRA DVD 022 424
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Magicians of the earth
- Magicians of the earth.
- Language:
- Edo
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Beninese.
- Manners and customs.
- Benin--Social life and customs.
- Benin.
- Benin--Religious life and customs.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Harrington Park, NJ : Milestone Film & Video, [2010?]
- System Details:
- DVD-R
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints the religious houses of the vodun. Haas and his film crew follow Cyprien as he first paints and then takes part in the ceremony to open a new temple. The paintings include three new vodun figures and several emblems, including a pipe and a duck. Cyprien explains his work in the context of the religion and takes the crew to film two other local ceremonies, one where the dead are believed to come back to instruct the living through wild dancing and, another, where women warriors perform their war dances."--container.
- Participant:
- Artist: Cyprien Tokoudagba ; English voice, Delroy Lindo.
- Credits:
- Camera, Tony Wilson ; sound, Eric Devulder ; editor, Belinda Cowdy ; translator, Michel Bagbonon.
- Notes:
- English narration and Bini with English voice over.
- Originally filmed in 1990.
- OCLC:
- 613343160
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