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Marine Hugonnier: The Secretary of the Invisible.
Art Monthly
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July 1, 2008|
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Marine Hugonnier: The Secretary of the Invisible Max Wigram Gallery London June 12 to July 31
This exhibition takes its title from a 22-minute film Hugonnier shot on the River Niger. It begins by showing Damoure Zika and Mousa Hamidou discussing cinema as they travel by boat to a 'Holley' ritual in which celebrants allow themselves to be possessed by spirits. Both men worked with French visual anthropologist Jean Rouch (1917-2004) on his West African films. Rouch's The Mad Masters, 1955, was enormously influential on French new wave directors, who copied the ...
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