Filmmaker Herbert Alfonso and musician Glenn de Randamie travel to Ghana to do some research on polyrhythm and the West-African spirituality. However, their trip to The Motherland makes them realize that home is more than the place where they grew up. Years later, they recollect their faded memories and try to find the right words to describe their intense experience. What exactly made them feel at home and lost at the same time? What does being home actually mean for a black individual from Europe while visiting Africa? Only abstractions seem to persevere as this colourful and musically-charged collage serves to show how a life-changing experience can leave us with nothing but fragments of a truth that has yet to be discovered.

Herbert Alfonso

Self

Typhoon

Self

• Herbert AlfonsoDirector · Editor · Director of Photography
• Jonathan J. SmitProducer
• Afra FoliExecutive Producer
• Kwame KondorExecutive Producer
• Lynn ZebedaExecutive Producer
• Anna van DantzigExecutive Producer

Teaser PosSession of the Spirit

Release date

September 24, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Dutch

Runtime

20m

Rated

Genres

Documentary

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