MOUNTED BY THE GODS

MOUNTED BY THE GODS

MOUNTED BY THE GODS

Director: Alberto Venzago
Documentary | D/DY | 2001
91 min | Dolby SRD

35th Hof International Film Festival
2001

Travelling through Benin in West Africa in 1991, the Swiss photographer Alberto Venzago discoverd a voodoo monastery. A priest named Mahounon consulted an oracle and told him events from his childhood he could know nothing about. Mahounon became Alberto‘s guide, mentor and friend on a ten years‘ journey into the mysterious world of voodoo. The film recounts this journey.