22 February from 19:00 to 21:00

CRA'P - Mollet del Vallés

A video programme about India and the celebration every 12 years of the Kumbh Mela. This festival is considered as the "world's largest congregation of religious pilgrims". Kumbh Mela means an "assembly, meet, union" around "water or nectar of immortality".

• Reflexiones de Babashivananda , Alberto Martos, 2003. India, Spain, 10 min, VO Spanish.

Varanasi, 6 a.m. 2nd week. Among the narrow streets of this sacred city, someone invites me to conduct an interview. I don’t understand what he says, but I follow him.

• Kings With Straw Matts , Ira Cohen , 1998. USA, India, 70 min, VOSE

A documentary about the Kumbh Mela in India. Edited from over 60 hours of footage shot in 1986 and edited in 1998 at Mystic Fire Video.

Limited places, early booking: info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504

CRA'P - pràctiques de creació i recerca artística ( creation practices and artistic research )

Anselm Clavé 67, 3r - 08100 Mollet del Vallès

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The sheaves of wheat hide the thorns of the jujube... drops of blood are sown in the dust

the woman's belly enters full moon... announcing a still-distant October

the harvest is a time of Remembrance, of gratitude.

Rituals from Phuket island, Thailand South, dedicated to the sons or representations of Doumu Godess (Kwam Im on Thailand). Ascetics devotees in Chinese Temples performing in trance doing transfixion, fire walks, hot oil flagellation, nails bridge walk and procession for their purification.

Even at night the Wana shamans from the Sulawesi see the “shadow” in each of us. For them, this shadow, which the sun defines on the ground during the day, is a spiritually essential part of us. A French woman, Claudia, shares her illness and suffering with Indo Pino, a shaman. However, in spite of the trust that Claudia has in Indo Pino and without Claudia's actual body being present, will she be able to heal her from so far away?

The PoojariŽs Daughter opens with flashbacks to South Indian priestess Rajathiammal “cutting the goat” and having her head ritually shorn. The year is 2001, the place, Madurai, Tamilnadu. These two moments fulfil the two most profound wishes of the priestess: to be filmed while performing the annual goat sacrifice to the Saivite god Paandi that was once carried out by her father, and to renounce family life altogether. Using experimental film techniques that recall the work of Trinh Minh Ha, The Poojari's Daughter weaves dramatic footage of these rituals and of temple life at Paandi Kooyil with Rajathiammal's moving account of her process, interviews with close relatives, and brief voiceovers by the filmmaker. Together, these create a vivid and unforgettably intimate portrait of the devotional worlds of this remarkable woman and of South Indian Hinduism.

The Last Rites of the Honourable Mr. Rai is a film about the cremation of a longtime resident of the holy city of Varanasi. This film, made at the request of the Rai family, is possibly the most detailed and respectful study of the Hindu rites of cremation on the sacred banks of the river Ganga.

Easter ceremony in Debre Berhan Selassie Church.

One of the funeral rites commonly practiced in Tibet is the Sky Burial, an ancient tradition that reveals a profound respect for nature and understanding of life. The Sky Burial ritual is known "jha-tor", which means the giving of alms to birds. The bodies of the dead are offered to vultures in a gesture of kindness towards living beings... a final act of generosity. We witness this funeral ritual from the Drigung Monastery in northern Tibet. To the Tibetans, merging with the sky after death is a holy event that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.

Varanasi, the city of Shiva, is also a city of death, known for its devotion and for its crematoria, which is where the Aghori Sadhus live. They cover their bodies with the ashes of the dead and ask for food using a human skull as a vessel.