Director: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
From: Tunisia
Year: 1999
Minutes: 52
Language: Arabic/French with English subtitles
Genre: documentary
Stambali
is a religious ritual in Tunisia, a journey with the rhythm
of the "gombri" and "chkackek," traces an individual and collective
hypnosis, an annual tribute that the disciples of Sidi Saad
pay to their master during an initiatory journey and rite of
purification that lasts three days. The camera, video and film
follow the rhythm of the possession, dances, and goes into a
trance, in the cemetery, in an open space of grass, trees, dust
and sand, in the eroticism that is released by this physical
and spiritual representation.
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