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Edition screened: Excerpt included on Mystic Fire DVD Maya Deren: Experimental Films, released 2002. Original Haitian on-site audio track. Runtime approximately 8 minutes.
Summary: Chickens killed in a religious ceremony.
Details: We see three chickens killed by having their nicks twisted during a voodoo dance ritual, 6:05-6:50. Of course these animals were killed, but the 1950s’ documentation is not bloody or violent. A child would think the chickens merely were being twirled around.
The Mystic Fire DVD includes this 8-minute excerpt from a longer film that Teiji and Cherel Ito created from many hours of documentary footage that Deren made in Haiti but never used.
