The Mad Masters(Les Maîtres fous)
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France · 1955
28m
Director Jean Rouch
Starring Jean Rouch
Genre Documentary
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The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.
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