SYNOPSIS
In a remote Haitian village, a ritual dance, slaves and masters: it’s the zombie dance. Riding on a hypnotic and relentless music, inducing trance and evoking the rhythm of working muscles, men whip and fight one another, until they die and be born again in an infinite cycle.
Kale Zonbi, Whipping Zombie, the title of a unique ritual shot for the first time, taking place in a paradise where it is impossible to forget the horror of the past.
SOUND | Mirco Mencacci
SOUNDTRACK | Matteo Pit
EXHIBITIONS
2017
FIAC Cinéprémière 2017, Grand Palais, Paris, France2018
SCULTURE, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandManifesta 12, Oratorio della Madonna del Rifugio dei Peccatori Pentiti, Palermo
FESTIVALS
2017
IFFR Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsCinéma du Réel, Paris, France
FICUNAM Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Taipei Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Encounters Documentary Festival, Cape Town and Johannesbourg, South Africa
Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, Netherlands
Open City Docs, London, UK
International Film Festival «Message to Man», Petersburg, Russia
FestiFreak Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Videoart at Midnight, Cinema Babylon, Berlin, Germany
Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival, Firenze, Italy
ZINEBI Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Bilbao, Spain
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Les rencontres autour du film ethnographique, Grenoble, France
Verin International Short Film Festival, Verin, Spain
Filmmakerfest Film Festival, Arcobaleno Film Center, Milan, Italy
2018
Les Inattendus Documentary Film Festival, Lyon, FranceTerre di Cinema, Cinéma Jacques Tati, Tremblay-en-France, France
Palazzo Grassi invites Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Venice, Italy
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
2019
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France2018
Cineteca di Bologna, Cinema Lumière, Bologna, ItalyFilmClub Europa Cinemas, Bolzano, Italy
