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Retorno al país de las almas
Retorno al país de las almas
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S014-SS001-0109 · Item · 2010
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In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still contact the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans' oral literature, myths and legends, and the traditional knowledge and uses of plants. In Return to the Land of Souls, Yéo Douley, a disciple of Jean Marie Addiaffi, sets out on a journey to visit his master's grave and carry out a ritual libation. On his travels, he attends the initiation rites of three people chosen by the spirits and witnesses one of them proclaimed as the new Komian, or high animistic priest.

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Return
ES ES-OVNI RSC-2144 · Item · 2006
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Return is a reflection about catharsis: a purifying ritual used to free the spirit from impurities and to come back to the state of the original purity.
Return to the Warlords
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3647 · Item · 2010
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

US military commanders have released a series of reports and recommendations in recent weeks on Afghanistan, and their conclusions have been sobering. General Stanley McChrystal, the US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, has stated that success in the fight against the Taliban cannot be taken for granted, advising the White House that more troops and a new strategy are needed to turn the tide. While the US and Nato face their highest casualty rates of the conflict, widespread fraud in the recent presidential election has raised questions about just what kind of political system US and Nato troops are dying to protect. In the midst of these military and political crises, Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan's most notorious warlord, who has been a powerful player in the country's politics for three decades, returned to the country. General Dostum had been living in exile in Turkey for nine months because of ongoing criminal and human rights investigations against him. However, he was invited back into the country by Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, two days before this year's presidential election to take a prominent role in Karzai's election campaign. Karzai hails his warlord allies as national heroes, but what does their return to political prominence mean for Afghan democracy? In the run up to the election, American filmmakers Rick Rowley and Jason Motlagh travelled to Dostum's stronghold in northern Afghanistan to get the first TV interview with him since his return.
Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0029 · Item · 2002
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The fictions-performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.

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