Movie Details
Theatrical Release:June 26th, 2013
Original Language:English
Lettres du voyant (2013)
DirectorLouis Henderson
40 minJun 26th, 2013
Plot
Lettres du Voyant is a documentaryfiction about spiritism and technology in contemporary Ghana which 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 antineocolonial resistance The film takes the form of a voyage to the end of the world travelling through a network of digitised mine shafts that lead the viewer to each of the films locations a gold mine an ewaste 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 films author letters that speak about the colonial history of Ghana of gold of technology
