100 or 58min | HD | 16x9 | German or English version
Synopsis
The film explores how African-based spirituality has influenced America’s popular culture. The old African gods have taken on new forms since their arrival on North America’s shores. Their spirit now manifests in turntable wizardry, improvisational skills and mind-blowing collages, performances and rituals. The film shakes up traditional and stereotypical ways of thinking about race, religion, rationality. Narrator Darius James meets with musicians, writers and artists, healers, gumbo cooks and Mississippi Blues men. He moves from Voodoo myths and legends to urban creativity. A road trip to the spiritual sources of black American culture.
2012 BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA 2013 New Voices in Black Cinema, Brooklyn, New York – Feb. 16, BAM Black World Cinema, Chicago, Il – March 7 iRep Festival, Lagos, Nigeria – March 21 Lichter Filmfestival, Frankfurt, Germany – March 24 Our Image Film and Arts Festival, Houston, TX – April 26 Planete Doc, Warsaw and Wroclaw, Poland – May 17, 18, 19 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia - July 11, 13 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN – Oct. 6 Evil Music Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin – October 25
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