HEAVENLY JOURNEYS
Himmelsreisen

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016
7:00 pm

Goethe-Institut
170 Beacon Street, Boston

In competition
Directed by Marcel Klapp
Doc. / 30 min. / 2015 / Germany

Heavenly Journeys displays the negotiations and transformations that the Alevi community is undergoing for the last three decades in Germany by a central element of its ritual practice which is also declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO. The documentary combines the perspectives of a young woman, who used to perform “semah” publicly with a folklore group, and İskender, an elder who learned it by participating in “cems” in Anatolia.

MARCEL KLAPP

Marcel Klapp studied Ethnology at the University of Münster. For his master’s degree he conducted fieldwork at a community radio station in Nairobi, Kenya. His main research interests are religion and identity at the intersection of Visual and Media Anthropology. Since 2012 Marcel has been working as a trainer for intercultural competence in adult education.