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To serve the gods
- Title
- To serve the gods [motion picture] / a film by Karen Kramer.
- Publication
- New Jersey : Karen Kramer/Erzulie Films, 1981.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Moving image | Request in advance | Sc Visual VRA-287 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Moving image | Request in advance | Sc Visual MPB-222 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 1 film reel (33 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- Records the Guin family in Southern Haiti during a week of dance, music, prayer and animal sacrifice to the family deities, or loua. The ritual is held only once in twenty or thirty years, when the extended family gathers on their ancestral land for the purpose of serving their gods.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Black films and programs.
- Note
- Haitian Creole with English narration.
- Filmed in Southern Haiti.
- Credits (note)
- Narrator, John Genke; anthropologist, Ira Lowenthal.
- Performer (note)
- Guin family.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-287
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F315
- Title
- To serve the gods [motion picture] / a film by Karen Kramer.
- Imprint
- New Jersey : Karen Kramer/Erzulie Films, 1981.
- Cast
- Guin family.
- Credits
- Narrator, John Genke; anthropologist, Ira Lowenthal.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Kramer, Karen. ProducerGenke, John, narrator.Erzulie Films.Karen Kramer/Erzulie Films.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-287 Service copySc Visual MPB-222 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-287