Damoure Zika, Lam Ibrahima Dia, Illo Gaoudel, Douma Besso, Adamou Koffo. Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1967.
Summary:
One of Jean Rouch's classic ethnofictions, the film follows three young Songhay men from Niger-- Lam Ibrahim, Illo Goudel'ize, and the legendary performer Damouré Zika-- on a journey to the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana). Drawing from his own fieldwork on intra-African migration, the results of which he published in the 1956 book Migrations au Ghana, Rouch collaborated with his three subjects on an improvisational narrative. The four filmed the trip in mid-1950s, and reunited a few years later to record the sound, the participants remembering dialogue and making up commentary. The result is a playful film that finds three African men performing an ethnography of their own culture.
Series:
Six films by Jean Rouch
OCLC:
(OCoLC)823503889
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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