Description
Filmed in Accra, Ghana, in 1954, the film depicts the annual ceremony of the Hauku cult, a social and religious movement which was widespread in French colonial Africa from the 1920's to the 1950's. Participants in the ceremony mimic the elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.
Details
Title
Les maîtres fous
Creator
Variant Title
Mad masters
Jean Rouch. The Mad masters
Jean Rouch. The Mad masters
Published
Brooklyn, NY, Icarus Films, 2010?
Link to Content
Full Collection Name
Media Resources Center Selections
Series
Six films by Jean Rouch
Subject (Topic)
Cults Ghana -- Accra.
Spirit possession Ghana -- Accra.
Songhai (African people) Rites and ceremonies.
Cults Africa, West.
Cults Niger.
Video recordings.
DVD-Video discs.
Possession par les esprits Ghāna -- Accra.
Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) Rites et cérémonies.
Cultes Afrique occidentale.
Vidéos.
DVD vidéo.
Spirit possession Ghana -- Accra.
Songhai (African people) Rites and ceremonies.
Cults Africa, West.
Cults Niger.
Video recordings.
DVD-Video discs.
Possession par les esprits Ghāna -- Accra.
Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) Rites et cérémonies.
Cultes Afrique occidentale.
Vidéos.
DVD vidéo.
Geographic Coverage
Type
Video
Format
Documentaries and Factual Films
Documentary films France.
Ethnographic films France.
Short films France.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures France.
Short films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films France.
Ethnographic films France.
Short films France.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures France.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Courts métrages.
Films autres que de fiction.
Documentary films France.
Ethnographic films France.
Short films France.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures France.
Short films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films France.
Ethnographic films France.
Short films France.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures France.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Courts métrages.
Films autres que de fiction.
Extent
1 videodisc (28 min.)
Other Physical Details
sound, color
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Language
Opening credits in French; English narration.
Archive
The Library
Note
This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
"Film réalisé au cours d'une mission de Centre national de la recherche scientifique et de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
"Film réalisé au cours d'une mission de Centre national de la recherche scientifique et de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
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