Under the Sky of Fetishes responds to the complexity of colonial archives. It reinvents the specters of a haunting gaze to tell the story of Mauritian sega—a cultural practice born during colonization and slavery, now mainly seen in tourism. How do we project, literally bring out of ourselves, the narrative of the oppressor? Mixing fiction and ethnography, the film sanctifies the power of the projection as a mental as well as intimate enigma to release ghostly and alienated bodies, including our own.
This film screens as part of the shorts program History Is Written at Night.
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Caroline Déodat (b. 1987) is an artist and researcher based at the Georg-Simmel Center in Paris. Her dissertation, Disturbing the genre of “typical Sega”: Imaginary and poetic performativity of Mauritian creolity, was defended in 2016. Her artistic and scientific practice is focused on experimental ethnography and the anthropology of dance. Through films and installations, she seeks ways to weave threads of silenced or alienated stories into history.
