Carnival

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A carnival is a popular and socially liberating street festival that usually combines music, masking or costume, dance, food, eroticism, and performances such as parades, street theatre and puppetry.

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Ascent to the Sea, Performance by Odin Teatret Ensemble

A film following the street performance Anabasis in Peru. It was an itinerant performance, based on exploiting the connections between the actors and the spectators who they encounter on their way.

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Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits

The film is a documentary about the life of a female shaman Kim Keum-hwa, who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl and oppressed for following superstitions as an adult. It depicts how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honoured as a national treasure of Korea because of her outstanding artistic talents throughout Korea’s tumultuous history. The film is based on the autobiography “Bidankkob Neom-Se” by Kim Keum-hwa.

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