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The Presence of the Past - Madagascar, Music, and Devotion
People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.
| Release : | 2004 |
| Rating : | 5.5 |
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| Genre : | Documentary |
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brilliant actors, brilliant editing
There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
