197383
197383

Horendi

1972-01-01
8.8
fr 72m
Documentary
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer to a ganandi, literally 'to make dance' This film concerns two women whom the zima [priest] had diagnosed some months before as being ill through possession by spirits. In the meantime, their families have gathered together the resources to pay for the musicians, dancers, and the priest himself to put on an initiation dance lasting seven days This is a film of documentation, simply recording various moments in the progress of the ceremony, without any form of explanation, neither in intertitle cards nor in voice-over. (Paul Henley, The Adventure of the Real)

Director

Gilbert Rouget

Director

Jean Rouch

Sound

Hama Soumana

Editor

Danièle Tessier

niger ethnographic film

Status

Released

Countries

  • France
  • Niger

Companies

  • CNRS Images
  • Comité du film Éthnographique