Le Dahomey cérémoniel: Le cinéma de Francis Aupiais. Magazines So open your eyes

So open your eyes

and his work for the theater profoundly influenced a body of work whose dazzling modernity is revealed in the exhibition

where the donkey is most often interpreted as a representative of Seth

of a ritual and funerary nature

they preferred intimate discoveries to the great lights of the market

Le Dahomey cérémoniel: Le cinéma de Francis Aupiais. Magazines So open your eyesFilmed in Dahomey (present day Benin) in 1930 by missionary and ethnologist Francis Aupiais with his cameraman Frdric Gadmer, as part of the Archives de la Plante program created by businessman Albert Kahn, the two film collections "Christian Dahomey" and "Religious Dahomey" clearly distinguish between the rituals of a "pagan" world and those of a world in the process of Christianization. By bringing these two bodies of work into dialogue, Gaetano