Lettres du Voyant

2013
Country: France, France
Duration: 40 mins
Colour,
Sound: 5.1 Surround
Ratio: 16:9
Available Format/s: SD Video / HD Video / DVD / BluRay / HD Digital file / DCP
Original Format: HD video

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“To take back the gold that was stolen from us – this is the object of our actions.”Lettres du Voyant is a documentary-fiction about spiritism and technology in contemporary Ghana that attempts to uncover some truths about a mysterious practice called “Sakawa” – internet scams mixed with voodoo magic. Tracing back the scammers’ stories to the times of Ghanaian independence, the film proposes Sakawa as a form of anti-neocolonial resistance. The film takes the form of a voyage through a network of digitised mine shafts that lead the viewer to each of the film’s locations ; a gold mine, an e-waste dump, a voodoo ritual or a discotheque for example. A character recounts a story through reading a series of letters that he has written to the film’s author – letters that speak about the colonial history of Ghana, of gold, of technology.

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