Drums from the Past
Synopsis
"On May 1971, the Simiri people in Niger attempted to fight an invasion of locusts, known as the bush Genii, by using, perhaps for the very last time, the archaic drums, Tourou and Bitti. But for three whole days, "the genie horses" danced in vain... On the fourth evening, the sound technician Moussa Hamidou and myself as cameraman got directly involved. Thus a "strong moment" in a possession rite was shot, in a single take, making this a test of first-person ethnographic filmmaking."
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de la Pléiade
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
Full credits (2)
- Executive Producer : Pierre Braunberger
- Assistant directors : Lam Dia, Tallou Mouzourane
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Ethnography
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1972
- Runtime : 11 min
- Visa number : 40769
- Visa issue date : 08/02/1973
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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