That call for magic

Jean-Noël Gobron & 26' — 1989

This is a film about taros and clairvoyance that is not aimed at prooving anything, nor at mocking anybody. It does not pretend to state about parapsychological Belgium. It is a mere collection of conversations held with people who daily practise their divinatory skills. Rather than trying to find out if they were honest or crooked, I voluntarily committed myself in making portraits of people showing real faith and enthousiasm for their practise. Who are these practitioners? How do they work? Why do they do this? How do they explain these clairvoyance phenomenons? These are the type of questions that are asked in this documentary. To know if parapsychology really exists or not, would have been an interesting question, scientifically or philosophically. But, within the narrow frame of this film, the answer could only be tendentious or speculative in any case. Having thus considered this as a false problem, I have limited myself to recording the words of beings that are, first of all, humans. J.-N. Gobron

Belgium

Production : Alcyon Film
Coproduction : CBA, AJC

Réalisation
Jean-Noël Gobron
Scenario
Jean-Noël Gobron
DOP
Jean-Noël Gobron
Sound
René Haan
Image editor
Monique Rysselinck
Mix
Gérard Rousseau
Music
Team For Action
Image Format
16mm & 1 POUCE
BW/Colour
Color
Languages OV
FR
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