Title | Beyond Life
Directed by | Frode Storaas and Knut Chr. Myhre
Year | 2018
Runtime | 23 min
Production | Frode Storaas, University Museum of Bergen
Country | Tanzânia
Display format | H 264
Camera | Frode Storaas
Sound | Frode Storaas
Synopsis | EN | On the rural slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a young man takes his own life, leaving a wife and several small children behind. On the third day after his burial, a ceremony is conducted to cool or cleanse the homestead – ihora kaa. Such ceremonies are conducted for every death to allow its inhabitants to resume their everyday lives. However, it requires particular care and attention in the case of a suicide. The film follows each step to document the ceremony, and thus demonstrates how the camera can serve as a tool for ethnographic data collection.
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