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To Serve the Gods

To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.

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  • "To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors."@en
  • "Records the Guin family in Southern Haiti during a week of dance, music, prayer and animal sacrifice to the family deities, or loua. The ritual is held only once in twenty or thirty years, when the extended family gathers on their ancestral land for the purpose of serving their gods."
  • ""To serve the gods" propose une incursion dans les croyances, les rites et les cérémonies d'une durée d'une semaine données par une famille haïtienne en l'honneur de ses esprits ancestraux. Il est dit au début du film que ce "sevis loua" ne se produit que tous les vingt ou trente ans. Ce service a lieu dans une communauté rurale au sud d'Haïti, sur les terres familiales, où les parents se sont réunis pour concilier les différents dieux hérités de leurs ancêtres. Cette célébration donne lieu au son des tambours, des chants, des danses, des rites de possession, du sacrifice d'animaux et du partage de cette nourriture avec les dieux et avec les amis, la famille et les voisins. La cinéaste Karen Kramer a étudié le vodou pendant vingt ans et a participé à des cérémonies pour la première fois à Haïti en 1971. Son film est basé sur la recherche ethnographique de l'anthropologue Ira Lowenthal et de son travail "Un service pour les dieux dans le sud de Haïti"."
  • "Shows how the people in southern Haiti serve their gods. Presents the rituals and ceremonies used in their services."@en
  • "Records the Guin family in Southern Haiti during a week of dance, music, prayer and animal sacrifice to the family deities, or loua. The ritual is held only once in twenty or thirty years, when the extended family gathers on their ancestral land for the purpose of serving their gods."

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  • "Music"@en
  • "Music"
  • "Black films and programs"
  • "Documentary"@en
  • "Encoded moving images"@en

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  • "To Serve the Gods"@en
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