Angano...Angano... (Tales from Madagascar)

Angano...Angano... pioneers a new approach to ethnographic filmmaking, at once scrupulously non-interpretative yet deeply evocative. The central character in Angano...Angano... is the oral tradition itself which passes down the wisdom of the ancestors, the "ear's inheritance," through myths and folktales. Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture. The filmmakers do not dramatize these tales; rather they document story-telling itself by placing it in its social and geographical context. The tales flow into and out of stunning shots of the daily Malagasy life which gave them life and which they in turn explain.




People, Folklore and Myth
African Documentary

"'Tales...Tales...' says the opening interviewee, and our ears perk up. This film offers plenty of good stories...Absorbing and highly recommended."
-- Video Librarian

"A splendid film...Images of fantasy and reality are evoked by the words of personable storytellers."
-- Harold Scheub, University of Wisconsin

Producer: Marie-Clemence Blanc-Paes
Director: Cesar Paes
Madagascar/France 1989
In Malagasy with English subtitles
64 minutes

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