Screening The Divine River and Outlay's Wedding at Heartwood Soundstage
Sun, Mar 17
|Gainesville
No. 9 Productions is proud to be presenting in collaboration with Pulp Arts, CAME, and SUBLIME FREQUENCIES a double feature of films directed by Hisham Mayet, founder of Sublime Frequencies.
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Gainesville, 619 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA
About the Event
Condensed from 40 hours of footage shot between 2007 and 2012, The Divine River is an exhilarating, hallucinatory,harrowing record of music, ritual, life and landscape along the Niger River—which the Tuareg call Egerew n-Igerewen, or "River of Rivers"— as it winds through Mali and the Republic of Niger.
Traversing 300 miles of this transitional zone between the Sahara and the Savanna, The Divine River is not a linear record of a journey so much as a phantasmagoria of visual associations that create their own emotional topography and chronology, always accompanied by music that blurs the lines between sacred and secular, past and present. Highlights include intimate views of ecstatic dance in the painted houses of the island-dwelling Wogo; the seductive courtship rites and trance vocals of young Wodaabe men; a mesmeric Tuareg and Zarma duet for guitar and molo;Hausa griots enchanting with comsaa strings; Zarma spirit possession ceremonies; and heart-stopping…