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Far Off Sounds Ep 16 - The Good Doctors of Nima
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We were invited to a fetish ceremony in the innercity of Accra, the capital of Ghana. What we found was animal sacrifice, ancestor communion, and some of the most tranced-out hypnotic drumming in the world.
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Hurwitz-Goodman, Jacob (filmmaker)
George, Nick (filmmaker)
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Oh, over the next couple of days,
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there\'s going to be a ceremony
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held here in the sort of in the middle of Lima.
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And I asked them if I can be there to film it.
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And they said, okay,
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but in order to do that, I needed to do two things.
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One, provide them with a copy of the footage
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to buy a goat at the market.
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And so that they so that the fetish priests,
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the visiting fetish priest, can slaughter the goat in a ritual sacrifice
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to open the way through their gods, through their spirits.
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For me to do the filming.
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So it\'s like I\'m making a contribution to the ceremony
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so that it\'s all sort of on the level, spiritually speaking.
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So I said, Okay, no problem.
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I didn\'t think it was a big deal.
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But this morning we went to the market to buy the goat.
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This goat totally freaked out and
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looked at me when I walked over and was crying
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for the friends, family or friends or whoever I had just left
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and made to part ways with.
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And I paid the money and took the goat
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and with the tie of its legs and put it in the back of the taxicab
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and the whole way back,
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the goat was just crying behind us in the back of the taxicab.
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And in about 20 minutes or so.
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The ceremony to sacrifice the goat
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so that I can film tomorrow is going to take place.
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Hello. And,
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you know, I\'ve never I\'ve. I\'m
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this goat is going to die so that I can film
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a ceremony, so they can film a ritual.
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And I\'m
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more nervous about this than I have been about anything
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that I\'ve ever filmed in any situation.
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And yeah, this goats about to die.
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My heart is pounding.
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I feel like I should be more manly about this.
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And there are people.
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I mean, another thing is that we.
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I eat meat every day.
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So there\'s that.
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Okay, I think it\'s almost time.
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That my heart.
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I was in this.
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That was one of the while.
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If I want to play.
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You have to play here.
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Yeah, yeah, you. Have to play here.
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You have people
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that like to drink.
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But they see at a gene.
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Yeah. Yes.
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You have to, you
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know, I have.
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Well, actually, it\'s something between it\'s a great festival,
but here we don\'t.
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It\'s something had between every year
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this year this is the right time for us to do it.
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Why do the spirits.
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Want you to kill.
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Animals?
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You know it.
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This What if you are what you eat?
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Somebody is working for you or God.
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There must be sacrifices.
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Make that business I students, students.
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If Spirit is guiding you, definitely.
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There must be a time for you to be of
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be use to destroy that site or ancestors
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is just like somebody is working with you.
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The person can just work for you without giving something up by armies.
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Be the presence of the president.
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That is why they do that.
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Whatever works to go together
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to do will be able to put in this
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because I feel.
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For you guys,
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but I don\'t classify.
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Yourself in of
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from their culture.
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But for them to go
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over you know
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what you are.
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As for all that, I know
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we\'re going to do
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one last.
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I got down to
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my next level
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and I\'m kind of
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yeah,
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this time.
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Okay. Is
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oh my sounds
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So was like
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I just to.
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Oh, go you
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I don\'t want to
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do you got
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you know
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you you.
Distributor: Means TV
Length: 16 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: English / English subtitles
Grade: 10-12, College, Adults
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Closed Captioning: Available
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