Under the Sky of Fetishes

​​In Mauritius, Sega, a long-silenced political dance originally created by slaves, is now “recognized” by the country’s tourism industry. In this gesture of film and performance, visual anthropologist Caroline Déodat combines archives, dance and film footage to (re)construct this history, muzzled and invisibilized by colonial and postcolonial dynamics by making it as visible and material as possible. A film of ethnographic experimentation that questions the colonial gaze and its hold, where image, movement and body become one.