Gnawa
A visual dive into the magical and religious world of the Gnawa Soufi from Morocco.
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A visual dive into the magical and religious world of the Gnawa Soufi from Morocco.
Rainbow Trance is an ethnographic documentary that explores the Gnawa ritual ceremony called the Lila a multi-layered musical and healing trance ritual deeply rooted in Moroccan spiritual culture.
The history, symbolism and ritual practice of Morocco’s Gnawa traditions.The film draw upon years of interview footage to explore both how this ritual works and what its various components mean.
The Gnawa inhabit ordinary and non-ordinary worlds, their music and song creating spaces passageways between the two. This experimental non-fiction video gives a glimpse of such a passage through a brief encounter with M
Gnawa music is that of the ritual tradition known in Morocco as Tagnawit, "the craft of the Gnawi." The Gnawa are the practitioners of this tradition, be they the musicians or the initiates and clairvoyants who sponsor c
The Gnawa people have been shrouded in mystery since they were exiled from the Malian empire and brought as slaves to Morocco in the 16th century. In the last two decades, the power of their trance music has come into th