To serve the gods - Lowenthal, Ira P. (Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1982)
Previously released on DVD.. - Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011). - Filmed in Haiti
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors