EthnoKino: The Possibility of Spirits and Stendalí

What is it that you film when you film a spirit? Find it out in EthnoKino! We will show «The Possibility of Spirits» by Mattijs van de Port and the short film «Stendali» by Cecilia Mangini. Mattijs van de Port will be there in Person for a Q&A after the screening. Join in and enjoy the good spirit in EthnoKino!
— THE POSSIBILITY OF SPIRITS
Mattijs van de Port, 2016, the Netherlands, 71 min
Language: OV E, Portuguese/e

What is it that you film when you film a spirit? Shot in Bahia (Brazil), The Possibility of Spirits is an essay film that keeps the baffling mystery of spirit possession center stage. In a poetic assemblage of images and words, it offers an alternative for the kind of documentary that either exoticizes spirit possession in spectacular imagery, or extinguishes the wonder of the phenomenon in explanatory prose. The possession ceremonies, filmed in close up, first and foremost reveal that we don't know what it is that we are looking at. Words — of the filmmaker, as well as of his interlocutors — are allowed to drift out of meaning. Trying to grasp the phenomenon, they become silence, or laughter, or screaming. Paying tribute to the extra-ordinariness of its subject matter, this film invites viewers to allow themselves to be confused and — in that confusion — consider the possibility of spirits.

Trailer: vimeo.com/174739149
Website: mattijsvandeport.eu/The_Possibility_of_Spirits.html

STENDALÍ — SUONANO ANCORA
Cecilia Mangini, 1959, Italy, 11 min
Language: OV I/g

A unique documentary on the tra­ditional mourning ritual in Griko, an ancient language of Salento.

The admission fee is voluntary & the bar is open.

We are looking forward to seeing you!
Anna, Céline, Eda, Lea, Livia, Pavel, Sina, Valentina