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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