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Living Memory
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LIVING MEMORY is a film about Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Filmed with a Malian crew, cut to the beat of Malian music, the film offers an alluring mosaic of perspectives.
Home of the ancient empires, this landlocked desert nation is one of the ten poorest countries yet, paradoxically, a rich culture flourishes, and Malian artists are prominent in contemporary Africa.
Samuel Sidibé (Director of the Musée National du Mali), the brilliant Malian cinematographer Racine Keita and Susan Vogel (founder of the Museum for African Art, New York) provide unparalleled access and an insider's vision. The film was made with a commitment to authenticity; actual events are explained by the first hand participants.
The film is constructed in six sketches:
Ritual Arts - At the Chiwara ritual dance in Dyere, where it is performed for farming success, the pulsing energy of the dance contrasts with the small audience and an elegiac statement by the old chief who fears Chiwara will end with his generation.
Culture on Display - Replicas of iconic Malian objects have multiplied in public space as emblems of national pride, and as merchandise for tourists. Meanwhile, the authentic originals stream from their village homes into museums and art collections around the world.
Style - Style is central to Malian culture, and weddings are splendid displays of elegant clothing, henna body decoration, and elaborate gold work. In Timbuktu we meet an outspoken bride prepares for the wedding by visiting woodworkers, goldsmiths, and weavers.
Architecture - In Djenne a thousand men turn out to restore the plaster on the great mosque in a few hours, one of the most spectacular but seldom witnessed events in Mali.
Contemporary Artists - Artists in a dialogue with their heritage. Yaya Coulibaly carves wooden puppets; Alioune Ba photographs timeless activities at the river, a departure from the traditional portraits of Malik Sidibe; and Abdoulaye Konate creates an assemblage alluding to magical amulets.
Music - From a Taureg wedding in the north to Mande hunters in the south, and closing with Salif Keita and his band going full steam at his club in Bamako.
Alternately sensual, ironic, beautiful and humorous, the film exposes tensions in a culture assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
"Beautiful and moving!"—Professor Suzanne MacRae, English Department, Univ. of Arkansas
"Evocative.... [Part of the film is] the story of an architectural monument as love object."—Holland Carter, The New York Times
"Visitors are always struck by the vibrancy of Mali's visual and musical arts, and this film captures this creative excitement and energy. It engages the full sweep of Mali's contemporary artistic production with an exceptional visual and conceptual clarity. The film reveals the power and vitality of those arts which have ancient roots in Malian history, and those forms drawn from the global lexicon, that Malians creatively transform, and proudly claim as their own. A must see film for… students of African art and culture."—Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator, African Art and Culture, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
"Eloquently describes the power of tradition in contemporary Malian society... Well photographed...the short visual essays also include brief interviews with musicians, artists, and others who are working to preserve the past. Recommended!"—Educational Media Reviews Online
Citation
Main credits
Vogel, Susan Mullin (film director)
Vogel, Susan Mullin (screenwriter)
Vogel, Susan Mullin (cinematographer)
Sidibe, Samuel (screenwriter)
Sidibe, Samuel (film producer)
Engles, Eric (film producer)
Other credits
Editor, Harry Kafka; cinematography, Harouna Racine Keïta, Susan Vogel; principal music, Salif Keita.
Distributor subjects
Africa; Anthropology; Architecture; Art; Cultural Anthropology; Dance; Geography; Islam; Music; PhotographyKeywords
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Ancient religions
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once governed village life but today they are
declining as villagers convert to Islam.
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Young men leave for the city and
ritual objects are sought for
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art collections. Shiwala is a religious called
dedicated to the legendary antelope
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who taught farming to humankind in
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remote villages that you are a dance
with antelope head dresses continues to
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promote agriculture and to cure
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snake bites the annual ceremony
is held after the harvest
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during two nights and three days
Sacred objects called bully.
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are still kept in the sanctuary
and brought out only for rituals
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I hope in the future
Mali will hold Kiiwaali with two hands.
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It is really a religious cult
that has other uses. It improves
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farming and can cure snake
bites. Whatever saves
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people from death must be preserved. It served
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our ancestors and it serves us. Malians
should hold it in two hands.
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I wouldn\'t be happy if people
came from everywhere to see are
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what you want to measure our success by
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the number of people who participate in
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the celebration and especially my footer
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young when they pull up without
it will go and it doesn\'t
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look that good You\'re giving
them what they already
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know
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I think
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that\'s where it\'s stored
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The question is
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introduced into
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the body
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So energy totally Radha has stayed the
same since I was young but I doubt
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it will spray Islam is
making people abundant it
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without Islam eq Lola haven\'t
grown because of its usefulness.
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The elders will have cryptic days follow
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one another I am not unlike advise everyone
to preserve the Tuatara of their ancestors.
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Otherwise tomorrow we will dig desperately
in the earth search inquiry ticking
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This circular 2q2 similarly
municipal budget cuts
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and you move through a muscle
gradually to let me visited
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multi-tier Malley\'s ritual objects
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have gradually moved from
village shrines to museums and
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art collections Today people in Mali in
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around the world admire to go and tell him
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would sculptures which date
back to the 14th century.
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And archaeological masterpieces from
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the Jenae culture tourists
come to Mali to visit some of
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the oldest civilizations in Africa
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Jenny gender was a
cosmopolitan urban center but
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a tenth century artists made great
sculpture for 500 years continuing after
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the arrival of Islam
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The Empire of Ghana exported tons of
gold to Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Until it was conquered
by a jihad from Morocco.
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The empire of Mali was
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a vast and powerful African Islamic state
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known from Spain to Egypt for
his great wealth an army of
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40 thousand archers in
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1500 or the height of the Songhai
Empire Timbuktu rivaled London in
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its population and the volume of
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its commerce
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Many
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traditional arts crafts
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and even ritual dances.
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Are being reproduced now
in commercial contacts.
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Marketing culture brings an important revenue
and helps maintain traditional crafts and
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performances but the marketplace
is a powerful force for
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change what was originally
sacred and meaningful.
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Can become just merchandise and
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entertainment Traditional
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borderland MatLab for example.
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Has spiritual power expressed in
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abstract patterns but new consumers might
want borderland tablecloths with pictures.
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Millions also used the new decorative
Berlin as a mark of national identity
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But
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yeah as soon
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remove C1 lotto possible.
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She will not associate a
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only on the what up enough don\'t
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they often will use
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it as a flow line one line two
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The post office
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space
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it\'s a recipe that is high enough
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that means that The problem
is that the idea of
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the degraded image search
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for and locate the thing
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I want to look at the standard.
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Sorry Ryan across
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my picture
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okay.
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Looking good is important for
everyone as an expression of
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respect for self and others
fashions change fast
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and everyone is expected to commit
a lot of time money and skill to
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their personal appearance Woman
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dominate the market for hand-eye
cloth and to all the dying.
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Women keep the money they earn
and many learned the skills at
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an early age textiles I pattern using
different techniques to block the die
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from selected areas that\'s
teaching for example.
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Will preserve the original color
of cloth when it is dip into
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a darker Di Men we\'ve so
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an embroider then beat the finished
cloth until it\'s stiff and
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gleaming Traditional techniques for
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dying middle and other working use
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complex chemical processes discovered
during centuries of experimentation.
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Even the most modest wedding
is a spectacular display of
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elegant clothing Henneke body
decoration and fragrant incense.
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The result of hundreds of hours of
skill labor and a refined aesthetic
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And there\'s
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kind of three months.
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every other change sets is
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free to sign them and as this
unit commands and we\'ll put
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less money at the same time
schema Joseph covered Maria
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this acid is abelian variation.
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So
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We want to
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push him into our Pyramus Ashok espouse
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the anatomy bluish is incompetent So
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even though
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these transition probabilities
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are identical to each other
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We get one nearby Darrow.
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Researchers also doubles into a
deliverable is the thing that we don\'t
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have that Let\'s do this
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now
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I\'m
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pregnant women
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edge marginalia enough emperor.
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Will depend upon two j plus the
engine to the cecum empathy
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And to see implemented
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Well
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we\'ll get to
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the middle of the book for
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those who imagined I medial set
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min node number able sorrow telemetry frame
yet And photo land shall give way that gun
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is redundant me mRNA may
live Va Vb learn to
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Matt So we are more embedded.
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Anybody nobody laugh.
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So much so that
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suppressed premise that
most Xun Tanzania Mali.
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Many healthy here MLA lead are
good enough to match the picture
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that everybody has a molar mass
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The financial management of the data that
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we
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Have
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that data
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About a 100 years ago a unique
architectural style was created in
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the Western Sudan that wouldn\'t pick it\'s
visible on the mud brick buildings are not
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structural they are a
permanent scaffolding for
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repairs the typical row
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of pinnacles on the roof are related
to pre-Islamic assessed royal shrines.
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The pinnacles have become a national motif.
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Used by architects on all sorts of buildings
in Mali from the colonial period until today
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The Greek mosque in Germany is
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the largest and most magnificent building
in this style and has been classified as
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a World Heritage
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Monument
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law mosquitoes.
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From Mount rhetoric around the
mosque agenda is really very
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big it has been here for
more than a century.
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But each year we have to
repair it because during
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the rainy season to rain washes
away to so we have to redo it
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Your phasor particularly
to sync our Sankey me
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when I was little I was
one of the young boys who
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went down to the river and gather declared
at it represents when the water is low.
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The clay mixes with cow
dung from the Hertz.
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Plus it is full of decayed fish.
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This mixture makes the clay
very hard and that\'s why
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our mosque is the largest adobe
building in the whole world.
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Um panko Gwanda Angie If I do sector
work is done in two sessions.
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Some neighborhoods do DFS part.
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Other neighborhoods do the second one you
have to give yourself completely to the task
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because at the end one neighborhood
will be rewarded for the best work
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civil and trabajo bacteremia
and if you don\'t work pretty
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high if they think your work
is good that generation
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will talk about you during your whole
life it will even tell your children
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Grandchildren
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Legend farms
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all widget to participate.
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Market young women have to participate and
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Margaret not I think is a more
modern we have processed.
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But to keep the traditional atmosphere.
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Girls go to rewire and groups and bring
water on their heads to the mosque and
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put it into the claim to mix it with
physical law Banko and Ganda V3
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Thank you to your Vermont
PM porta disapproval agenda
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as long as you are in good
health fair and you are
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in January on that day
you have to do the work
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let review easy this red trivia
or whether it\'s even old men
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have a good time because it reminds them
of what they did when they were young.
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So they\'re happy doing it We\'ve already
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done that work within our model doesn\'t
work when you go you wrote a book about
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it
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I cannot
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lead different Garcia on the revalidate
anthropy different neighborhoods are rivals.
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Right now the head Mason comes from
this encoder neighborhood but in
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the past he came from the yearbook in in
the world where I was born modulus unit.
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All the Masons who know the
secrets of Geneva building.
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Come from these two neighborhoods for that
matter all the great Muslim holy men and
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Greek traditional medicine men come from
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these two neighborhoods So I think
that is the origin of the driver
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And
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up
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To 50
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On your fair formula Patrick we do it for
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our hometown ulama escape
Secondly we do it for the mosque.
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It\'s a question of religion and Islam.
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You will be rewarded
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Non-linearity Euro bonds
for arguing or they\'ll
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overload metric d sigma
such that in the future.
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I don\'t think we will put
cement on the mosque to avoid
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the heavy walk we are not going to defy
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the wishes of the spirits tradition tells
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us that the spirits of Janet Duke like
cement or anything made of concrete.
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So we were always struggled to
maintain this tradition people cause
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RV cetera dismal
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law
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Many kinds
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of professional artists
live in the capital.
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Making paintings tourist masks
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publicity signs and films that
compete at the Cannes festival.
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Three artists featured here are
all academically trained sell to
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both local and foreign clients and exhibit
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internationally there is
a continuing response to
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miles long and glorious history
and was world-famous art of
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the past
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What the lucky mechanic
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dominated in addition to my
role as a cultural player
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as an artist or a creator I
am a witness to history.
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Meaning we don\'t have religious extremism
in the Valley we are at the same time
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anatomist we are Muslim we
are everything you want it
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to sync your four-momentum
import machinery.
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I think what is really important
here is to have archives.
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Consider displace a library it is as if
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children go to a library and
get books and read them
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This is a 100 years old.
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Second one stays really loved.
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When my father was young he played it
yeah but kept it for its originality.
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Or it is a very flexible.
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Set of originality sheila It was the only
theater here we stretch a cloud cover.
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So the marionette papers like
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this
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The situation of
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Marionettes and the villages is terrible
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now pour how that\'s going
to allow for big festivals.
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The most capable guys they have
gone to the city\'s lots of them
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used to be marionette players
in the village is too low
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in the cities the pink
they are black Europeans
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We\'ll never play Marionettes
again and that\'s just too bad
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exotic and they are also ought dealers who
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come undistributed villages of
the best collections on symbol
00:38:46.180 --> 00:38:51.798
is less your banana lust and
move between tradition and the
00:38:51.799 --> 00:38:58.054
contemporary with all my traveling as
spread the word about this Living Art.
00:38:58.055 --> 00:39:01.439
Traditional but a very alive everyday
00:39:22.350 --> 00:39:30.350
And also I don\'t want my images to just say
somebody I want people to enjoy looking at
00:39:31.090 --> 00:39:36.278
them Haiyan Perla ethnically
00:39:36.279 --> 00:39:40.824
a herder by profession and today
instead of following the herd.
00:39:40.825 --> 00:39:43.343
I follow images of my camera.
00:39:43.344 --> 00:39:51.344
Anymore monopoly photo This
approach is characteristic of
00:39:53.089 --> 00:39:58.129
my world this framing allows you to
00:39:58.130 --> 00:40:03.813
imagine a phrase and what\'s been left out
the part to think was most essential.
00:40:03.814 --> 00:40:11.814
The face a company that day and if you look
at the history of African photography.
00:40:13.895 --> 00:40:21.895
There were mainly interested in portraits
images of themselves or of someone they knew
00:40:29.650 --> 00:40:37.650
You see
00:40:40.624 --> 00:40:42.993
that photography dv tradition marianne
00:40:42.994 --> 00:40:50.209
this photography imagine tradition and assume
we pass me some yes because it\'s become so
00:40:50.210 --> 00:40:54.949
common law photography at the
time that photography is
00:40:54.950 --> 00:41:01.829
an art and art is universal and
photography is part of life in money
00:41:14.110 --> 00:41:22.110
One group of people
00:41:26.950 --> 00:41:34.950
on a regular basis
00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:43.759
to show both quizzes three
religions we see I think I
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:47.299
am the product of a society that
has the opportunity to live
00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:51.529
it\'s passed in we also live
in the current world we are
00:41:51.530 --> 00:41:59.530
connected I guess the piece
00:42:00.169 --> 00:42:02.374
I am making has a lot of eminence.
00:42:02.375 --> 00:42:07.219
It\'s part of a series I
call white ambulance be
00:42:07.220 --> 00:42:11.928
Bessie battle along these resemble
amulets you find in bomb in
00:42:11.929 --> 00:42:16.008
a secret societies that domino citizens
00:42:16.009 --> 00:42:20.898
if they are magic objects but these
are just shapes for me because they
00:42:20.899 --> 00:42:24.899
contain no magic ingredients
mine out of the form without
00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:29.838
disputed jet power not at all
religious which still I know
00:42:29.839 --> 00:42:33.509
people feel my work has a spiritual force
00:42:39.650 --> 00:42:47.650
It\'s because when fluid
and I believe everybody
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:56.959
comes out of a background that surface
is one way of doing this is what
00:42:56.960 --> 00:43:01.548
an African artist that background is
very very difficult to escape and you
00:43:01.549 --> 00:43:06.559
said that it\'s a bad even
amid the passes so powerful.
00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:08.789
So powerful
00:43:18.640 --> 00:43:26.640
Which gives me five
00:43:51.820 --> 00:43:58.459
and Molly will export the music and
the Christian life and episodes as
00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:06.460
well That\'s
00:44:07.579 --> 00:44:09.154
what\'s lacking
00:44:09.155 --> 00:44:17.155
non-one IT some police shown
some digits of the music.
00:44:19.655 --> 00:44:22.818
Recently said that a medical movement
00:44:22.819 --> 00:44:25.180
in
00:44:31.580 --> 00:44:34.139
Canada
00:44:43.160 --> 00:44:45.600
And
00:45:11.110 --> 00:45:19.110
what we\'re seeing
00:45:25.330 --> 00:45:33.330
If I utilometer lasagna denovo
parabolic law by either modality
00:45:41.870 --> 00:45:49.870
can emerge thematic map
out the definition of
00:45:54.100 --> 00:46:02.100
the factor independent event handler yesterday
and another layer that is the end of
00:46:03.290 --> 00:46:05.868
the year my area
00:46:05.869 --> 00:46:13.869
dv And let
00:46:26.020 --> 00:46:34.020
us know
00:46:50.150 --> 00:46:53.890
And we have over here
00:47:48.620 --> 00:47:50.900
So
00:48:02.350 --> 00:48:04.113
Then
00:48:04.114 --> 00:48:08.598
we went
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:16.599
back to reading The
00:48:35.020 --> 00:48:37.710
most
00:48:46.210 --> 00:48:54.210
good for the data
00:48:56.530 --> 00:49:04.530
So in the second and then
00:49:07.474 --> 00:49:07.805
we\'re
00:49:07.806 --> 00:49:15.806
going to listen
00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:22.504
to them early and late
now he saw lag in Vivax
00:49:22.505 --> 00:49:26.268
or down in a tiny store is
an in vivo adequate that\'ll
00:49:26.269 --> 00:49:34.029
come after the meal that
has a solid baptism move.
00:49:34.030 --> 00:49:37.998
Let them redo is superscalar
outlet is soil lead
00:49:37.999 --> 00:49:42.288
meat Then we\'re gonna
swirl swirl equity that\'s
00:49:42.289 --> 00:49:44.099
our song
00:49:51.550 --> 00:49:52.759
and we
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:56.518
got an easy one to C two does
that mean that once I\'m going to
00:49:56.519 --> 00:50:02.580
now knuckle facade of fat that wrong
done away those sorts of seller.
00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:06.769
Don\'t quit before quantum
bit what about see this
00:50:06.770 --> 00:50:10.390
sharp but I mean as it will
fade into Va give et cetera
00:50:23.010 --> 00:50:31.010
That\'s one
00:50:33.975 --> 00:50:36.840
thing that\'s
00:50:46.970 --> 00:50:52.159
subject to
00:51:02.470 --> 00:51:05.849
change And by
00:51:08.470 --> 00:51:16.470
the way
00:52:18.640 --> 00:52:26.640
Okay Okay
Distributor: Icarus Films
Length: 53 minutes
Date: 2003
Genre: Expository
Language: English / English subtitles
Grade: 8-12, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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