Vodoun, voodoo, vodun. Forget tired zombies, this is real. Vodoun in popular use is the lazy term encompassing the traditional spiritual beliefs of numerous individual African tribes, and Western hemisphere amalgams resulting from the admixture of tribes brought as slaves and later arriving free.
Vodoun Gods on the Slave Coast is a 2010 documentary on ceremonies in Benin. Not an anthropological study. The filmmaker, Hisham Mayet, is a Portlander, cofounder of Sublime Frequencies, and tireless explorer of the music and traditions of Africa, West and North (as well as other world parts!). Mayet has also gathered footage of possessed individuals in West Africa.
Presented by xray.fm, the film shows at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7PM $8
