Spiritual Healers - Visions of the Invisible World

Kusum is an ordi­nary 14year-old Indian girl. She lives in Delhi, goes to school and thinks about her future until she falls ill. Kusum stops eating, iso­lates her­self and has … read more

This film tries to make a con­tri­bu­tion to the inter­est in and debate about indige­nous heal­ing in gen­er­al, by specif­i­cal­ly look­ing at the case of mental patients in the West­ern Province of Kenya. While the film refers to rit­u­al­is­tic and bio­med­ical aspects of this kind of heal­ing, it cen­tres mainly on demon­strat­ing the day­to­day treat­ment a for­tune teller gives to a patient on his family compound. 

The imag­i­nary doc­u­men­tary is a daily chron­i­cle within the temple of Madame Nerval, a famous »Mambo«, as the female Vodoo-priests are called in creole. It is also a por­trait of … read more