Trance Cinema, An Evening of Ritual, Shamanism and Trance Films

Fri, Nov 4
8:00PM
$10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Required

Trance Cinema Screening

On Friday, November 4th at 8:00PM Oddball Film+Video presents Trance
Cinema: An Evening of Ritual, Shaman and Trance Films from around the
world. The event will take place at Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp St,
San Francisco. Admission is $10.00. Limited Seating RSVP to
or phone 558.8117.
This program includes four remarkable, very rarely seen award-winning
films+tribal dance shorts.

From the other side of the planet "Walbiri Fire Ceremony", documents
a spectacular three-day Australian Aboriginal communal ritual of
penance. The ceremony culminates in a nighttime ordeal in which the
owners are humiliated, engage in self-flagellation with burning
bundles of twigs and are showered with sparks from burning branches.
This is a powerful, engaging and fascinating film.

"Ma'Bugi: Trance of the Toraja", depicts an unusual trance ritual
that functions to restore the balance of well-being to an afflicted
village community. Clearly portraying the song, dance and pulsating
tension that precede dramatic instances of spirit possession in the
Toraja highlands of Sulawesi(Celebes) Island, Indonesia. "Ma'Bugi:
Trance of the Toraja", augments the growing body of documentation of
ritually sanctioned altered states of consciousness. This remarkable
film communicates both the psychological abandon of the trance state
and the often neglected motivation underlying such activities as the
supernaturally curing of the chronically ill and the ascent of a
ladder of knives.

"Sherpa High Country" is a beautifully photographed ethnographic
documentary of the Sherpas of the Solu Khumbu highlands in Nepal,
near Mt. Everest, over 4,000 ft in the sky. Sherpa life is shown in
detail and features stunning cinematography of the great annual three-
day Mani Rimdu ceremonies held at the Tangboche monastery. During the
Mani Rimdu a unique orchestra of horns, drums, conch shells and
cymbals accompany ritualistic dances in which monks in colorful robes
and bizarre glowering masks assume deities representing the historic
vanquishing of demons and the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. A
remarkable ceremony that draws visitors from around the world.

Finally a segment from the full-length documentary "Eduardo the
Healer", featuring a Peruvian Village shaman who, like Castenda's Don
Juan uses incantations, insightful psychological analysis and
hallucinogenic drugs to practice his healing arts. This segment
features a spellbinding nighttime sequence showing him curing a young
man suffering from severe depression.

Venue:

Oddball Film+Video
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415.558.8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off MIssion between 17th and 18th closer to 18th.
Parallel to Missionand S Van Ness.

Additional Info:

415.558.8117
www.oddballfilm.com