Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses...

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Voudoun Gods on the Slave Coast

Voudoun Gods on the Slave Coast

Vodoun Gods On The Slave Coast explores the ceremonial splendor of sacred dance and ritual in Benin, the birthplace and cradle of Vodoun. Formerly...

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Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa...

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Palace of the Winds

Palace of the Winds

Shot over the course of two years (2006-2008), Palace of the Winds is an intimate and dreamlike journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture...

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The Divine River: Ceremonial Pageantry in the Sahel

The Divine River: Ceremonial Pageantry in the Sahel

Condensed from 40 hours of footage shot between 2007 and 2012, The Divine River is an exhilarating, hallucinatory, harrowing record of music...

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Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway

Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway

Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures...

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Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel

Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel

A celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, this film showcases many of Niger’s venerable music styles. Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock...

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Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand

Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand

Welcome to ISAN, Thailand's forgotten frontier, where Lao, Thai and Cambodian folkloric traditions have conspired to create a mystifying pageantry...

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