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Creatures of Pain
Release Date:May 15, 1968
Running Time:5 min
Genres:Documentary
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Synopsis
In 1967 I was hoping to make a film about sheepherders in Nigeria. Civil War intervened and I had to be content with a few days attending a ritual called “sharo” in a small village near Kano. It qualified as a true ‘ordeal’, a contest of endurance to pain.
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